Cristian Rodriguez escribió: > >> IMHO, using the 'smart' approach would be better. > > No, you end having almost the same problem.. We have explained this many > times, smart is **no** model to follow for a package manager, it is > inconsistent and it does **not work** properly in 64 bit.
I'm not telling doing as smart. What the download model has to do with 64 bit??? > >> First download all >> packages (keeping them on a special location), and after finishing the >> download, install them. > > that is called "transaction", I suspect that there is a good reason why > it is not implemented the way you suggest. > If there is a good reason, I would like to know which is it. > If a problem occur during the download phase, >> just retry from the last successful downloaded package. > > and it should "resume" a download as well ;) Sure. > >> Having the choice to keep the downloaded files would be useful too if >> someone want to update another system without the need to download all >> again. > > IF you need to update more than one system, then rsync the update tree > and pragate updates via NFS or something. > What if you don't want to update all the packages, but just some group of them. It has not sense rsync the entire update tree. Best regards. --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
