Mailinglist Archive: opensuse-factory (506 mails)

[Francis Giannaros <francisg@xxxxxxxxx>]

On Friday 08 December 2006 11:07, Carlos E. R. wrote:
> The Thursday 2006-12-07 at 21:28 -0700, Boyd Lynn Gerber wrote:
> > > ares2c destroyed my download. It finished with a checksum error, then
> > > it destroyed the downloaded file. I'm not using it again :-/
> >
> > Did you use the guru rpm's?  I did not have any problems with them.
>
> Yes, I did. It is a problem with the client itself (aria2c) or the
> protocol, not of the package preparer. That client is not reliable. I'm
> certainly not trying again and wasting my time. :-/

Interesting. As one person thinks it was a waste, a whole horde (I'd say 40+) 
of people (i.e. yesterday in #suse) wouldn't stop praising it. Probably most 
patently myself 8). 

Anyhow, there was a lot of reported success with metalinks (and no such 
problems as you mention). Metalinks are excellent and I hope that (i) they 
take as prominent a role in the future with ISO downloads, and (ii) that we 
can get the aria2 client in by default for 10.3.

Nevertheless, as was mentioned support is being added for metalinks to kget 
(though not until kde4), curl and wget, so that's a step in the right 
direction.

Regards,
Francis.