Been watching this one, I'm OK here as I have an alleged 500KB download speed, never seen it yet !. But why not add a feature something like used in Kazaa or bit torrent, so that the download is from multiple sources and it keeps restarting the download on link failure. You could then leave the machine on when you go to bed and hopefully its all done when you get up. Just an idea
Richard On Sat, 2003-06-28 at 04:41, Brant Fitzsimmons wrote: > Praedor Atrebates wrote: > > > 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 > > If you use urpmi --auto-select --noclean and have an rsync (as opposed > to ftp or http) update source you may get that functionality. If the > download gets interrupted I believe it will start from where it stopped > the next time you try. > > Someone let me know if I'm wrong. -- richard bown <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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