Hi On Mon, Apr 19, 2021, 02:46 Morgan Adamiec <[email protected]> wrote:
> > > On 19/04/2021 13:39, Andrew Gregory wrote: > > On 04/19/21 at 01:32pm, Morgan Adamiec wrote: > >> > >>> Because the file may not be the same after we fallback to a different > >>> server. > >>> > >> > >> That shouldn't be the case though. Do we actually support that use case? > > > > Yes. Databases. > > > >>>> In fact I don't see the point of this variable at all. Why would we > ever > >>>> not want to unlink on fail? > >>> > >>> So that it can be resumed later. > >>> > >> > >> I guess, though the above point applies. it may be a different mirror > >> and therefore the file may not be the same. So I feel if you can resume > >> between pacman calls you should be able to resume between servers. > > Ah yeah I guess databases makes sense. But why not just have > allow_resume as false for those downloads and allow package downloads to > continue? > If it cannot update the packages database the there is not much sense to start downloading packages. >
