Ric Moore wrote: > Wow, just played with the command rpm --showrc to see just what > ftp'ish command is used by rpm (and hence yum). I'm not easily > finding that info. Actually, yum doesn't use rpm to do the downloading. And rpm, AIUI, uses some custom code to do downloads when you pass it a URL. > Stuck out here in the toolies, running a 56k modem at 28.8 because > the phone lines are all crappy this far from the central phone > banks, can I convince rpm (then yum) to "resume" the download, if my > connection is broken?? I don't think you can do that, though I'd be happy to be wrong on that. What you can do that may be a big help, is to install yum-presto. Presto uses delta rpms to dramatically reduce the amount of bits you need to download for updates. Check out the project page for instructions on setting it up: https://hosted.fedoraproject.org/projects/presto/ I'm pretty sure that one of the main presto authors, Jonathan Dieter, is on this list. I have a fat pipe, so I don't use presto much, but if I were on a slow connection, I'd be sending beer money to him. ;) > As Marvin the paranoid robot said, "I'm depressed.", and "I have the > brain the size of a planet ...and I'm parking cars." Hehe. -- Todd OpenPGP -> KeyID: 0xBEAF0CE3 | URL: www.pobox.com/~tmz/pgp ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Gradualism is perpetuity in practice. -- William Lloyd Garrison
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