--- Guillaume Cottenceau <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > Sorry if this has been discussed already but I'd
> like to throw in an
> > opinion :-)
> > 
> > A very useful option would be "keep download
> packages", with the user
> > having the choice where to have them stored.  This
> is useful
> > when:
> 
> Ok since many people asked for it I've added it in
> 2.0-6mdk: just
> put a line containing (exactly) "noclearcache" in
> /root/.grpmi
> (without the quotes of course).
> 
> The problem is still that if the download has been
> successful
> when you will launch it again curl will try to
> "resume a broken
> download" and will sit there forever -- update, it
> seems that it
> doesn't happen with FTP (curl "sees" that the
> download was
> complete) since I've just tested again with an FTP
> source, and
> the problem seems to not happen.

wget has no problems with this.  I know we've
discussed this before (you said something about curl
being available as a lib, and wget not, though I don't
see why this matters with rpmdrake being Perl, also
grpmi used to use wget).

> The option is a bit "hidden" but since there is this
> problem when
> trying to resume complete downloads, it seems ok to
> me.

Well, if you ever get it sorted out (-> wget or fix
curl) it'd be nice if you added it to the GUI as a
per-source option.  Like, I'd want to keep downloads
from a security update source, but not things
downloaded from my Cooker source, which is on my other
box one foot away :o)  Oh, and a reminder in advance
to put it in both the Add and Edit dialog boxes.

Don't care if this gets done before 9.0 or not, just
something nice for your TODO list.

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