On Sun, 2007-10-14 at 08:25 +0530, das wrote: > If only reposync had an inbuilt wget: that it can resume a big file from > till where it was done. It would be so helpful for us who work over slow > connections to the Net like 32kbps. Just now I got up from sleep and > this was the output in the reposync window, the last few lines: > In a particular local directory (/mnt/data/fedora.repo) I am doing a reposync with this command: reposync -n -a i386 --repoid=freshrpms --repoid=updates This is creating a repository of the newest packages (-n) for architecture i386 (-a) for both freshrpms and updates by taking the repository details from my /etc/yum.repos.d/. Now they are getting created. During doing this I got a problem. For a big file (nexuiz-data-2.3-2.fc7.noarch.rpm) of size around 260MB, reposync going incomplete downloads of the file for eleven times, and still incomplete. So, what I did was wget the file individually and keep it there in the /mnt/data/fedora.repo/updates/ directory. But, this was a brute force method. Is there any better way of making reposync use wget in the backend. The next problem is, once the repo is done and complete, how I am going to use it in updating a system after the installation of F7 is done with a dvd? I have an external HD of forty GB for this purpose. Can any of you please provide a step by step guide? See, I am absolutely new in the F7 way of doing things. -- das
