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On Friday 27 June 2003 07:52 pm, Praedor Atrebates wrote:
[...]
>    It would be way nice if I could do a MandrakeUpdate at work/school with
> my laptop and select to save the downloaded rpms so I could go home,
> connect up to my desktop, and upgrade it too.  MandrakeUpdate deletes all
> the rpms it downloads, and good thing else you would begin to seriously
[...]

On those rare occassions when I do decide to give MandrakeUpdate a go at home 
over my slooooow modem connection; if I try to do a big update, it stands a 
good chance of failing.  I may be trying to update ghostscript or qt3, large 
files, so I get MandrakeUpdate going and leave it to do its business.  
Problem is, if my dialup goes down and then comes back up (a distinct 
possibility), MandrakeUpdate fails.  It needs to have a wget-like 
mendaciousness.  If during updating the internet connection goes down and is 
then re-established, like wget, MandrakeUpdate should get back to 
downloading.  As it now stands, if the net connection dies and gets 
re-established while the download process is ongoing, the game is over and 
any time spent downloading was for naught.  How about giving MandrakeUpdate 
an autoresume ability?

praedor

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