On Saturday 26 July 2003 11:24 pm, Leon Brooks wrote:
> I just ran across a small misfeature of RPMdrake (IRL the whole RPM
> system, which I've touched on before). I selected (using RPMdrake) a
> whole flock of packages to add to a base install, and between the time
> I selected them and the time URPMI got to downloading them (maybe 8-9
> hours, it was busy with some Texstar and PLF stuff) the update index it
> had no longer matched the FTP site.

Isn't this just a problem with cooker as the standard dist tree never changes?   
I never see it because of my local mirror.

> The consequence was that I had to re-do the entire selection process,
> maybe a thousand packages. The same consequence would arise if (for
> example) I was operating through a modem and it hung up and caused a
> download failure for a key package.

Would I ever be doing that many packages over a modem connection?


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