James Wilkinson wrote:
This is something that always bothered me with yum (specially). Even on cable , sometimes I have to abort a update because I need to reboot to do something important.. And usually this happens when I'm at 50% download of a big package (usually kernel-sourcecode). Then , the next yum run , I have to restart the download (I know it's only the download of a single package , but for dialup users this is a nightmare. For me , it's just a little delay in the updates , but I still dont like the waste of bandwith caused by the lack of a resume function in yum).Brad Smith came up with a list of reasons why some users might prefer not to use repositories.
Another one is that they don't work well with sneakernet, in my experience.
Maybe if yum had a resume feature , it would be more dialup friendly ... And there's also the headers issue (downloading all those headers on dialup probably isnt fun at all).
Apt does this already.
Unless you're using 64bit linux (where you have the same package names for 32 and 64 bit packages that apt doesn't handle) you are probably better off using apt.
Mike
