On Mon, 2003-12-01 at 07:51, Panu Matilainen wrote: > > > The amount of data to be downloaded is the same, whether you use > > > apt/yum/up2date or download manually. There is absolutely NO BENEFIT > > > whatsoever to download software manually rather than using > > > apt/yum/up2date. > > > > Amount of data is the same, but what to do in situations when your > > connection fails ? Can you continue download ? With all files on WWW I > > could use wget to continue download. If you have multiple machines behind your dial-up gateway, you may want to wget the packages from the standard yum or apt repos and put them on a local server. Then yum-enable your local server and use it for your internal network. This way you only download each pkg once. -paul
