On Thu, 2007-03-22 at 08:47 +0100, Ladislav Slezak wrote: > Hello, > > Zhang Weiwu napsal(a): > > On Thu, 2007-03-22 at 14:41 +0800 > ... > > yast2 tries to restart from 0% every time when connection broken, yast2 > > do not understand how to retry and resume broken download session (e.g. > > restart download from 40%). Now I have already tried 6 times and I am > > tried of this. I think most package managers in Linux world do try > > restart resume download (I have tried: Ubuntu, Debian, Gentoo Linux). > > > > Possible to configure yast2 to resume broken connection? > > No, that's not possible. (Please, report this problem (enhancement request) in > bugzilla.novell.com.) > > As a workaround you can download (mirror) the repository to a local server (or > directly to your machine) and use the local copy of the repository. > > If the repository is huge and you want to install just few packages then copy > the metadata (content.*, control.xml, directory.yast, suse/setup/*, > suse/repodata/*) and the needed packages from suse/<arch>/ directory.
Can alternative package management tool help? e.g. smart (or smarty, cannot recall). Can these 3rd party package management tool also support directly using source repositories built for yast2? -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
