On Thu, 2007-10-04 at 16:36 +0200, Stanislav Visnovsky wrote: > Dňa Thursday 04 October 2007 16:24:43 Carlos E. R. ste napísal: > > The Thursday 2007-10-04 at 10:00 -0300, Gabriel . wrote: > > >> I agree that on a running system, this is not the most effective > > >> approach. What needs to be determined is to figure out how much space > > >> you can spare to download the packages and this is not very easy to do. > > >> Just imagine a package that will need to create a big new file in its > > >> post-install script (think initrd for a new kernel). You can hardly > > >> predict, only to use heuristics. > > > > > > I agree, but it could be an option (where the user configures the > > > repos) to choose what method will be used. > > > > Remember that till suse 10.0 that was what was done. Yast first downloaded > > all, then installed all, then removed or kept (user option) all files. > > > > The point is to reinstate the old behaviour. > > Are you sure about this? > > Stano
I would prefer it , if only as a choice. Netware has always done it this way to preserve the ability to back rev a file or the whole system in case of failure or conflict between the "update" and another piece of software installed. -- James Tremblay Director of Technology Newmarket School District 213 S. Main st Newmarket NH, 03857 603-659-3271 *318 CNE 3,4,5 MCSE w2k CLE in training Registered Linux user #440182 http://en.opensuse.org/educationk --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
