On Fri, 5 Oct 2007, 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.
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?? It's tough seeing a grown man cry here. I can spend over a
blooming hour or even TWO just getting the megabyte+ sized sqlight files
before I even get to dnloading a file. One burp and everything is
toast.
Been there, done that. My solution was to maintain a local repository
(using createrepo, so no need to download the database files),
using wget and rsync to copy down the .rpm files I wanted. You can
save lots of download time by getting the .src rpms, which are
generally smaller, especially if you install the debug versions of
libraries.
If I didn't need RH at work I'd be looking at Gentoo, which is built
around always compiling sources and seems to have more robust download
tools.
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George N. White III <aa056@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
