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? -- /g "Outside of a dog, a man's best friend is a book, inside a dog it's too dark to read" -Groucho Marx
