Mailinglist Archive: opensuse-factory (506 mails)

[Boyd Lynn Gerber <gerberb@xxxxxxxxx>]

On Sat, 9 Dec 2006, Volker Kuhlmann wrote:
> >  1) Novell did not prepare metalink files with segment information.
> >  2) the aria2c client doesn't handle segment checksums.
> >
> > You call that reliable? It is no more reliable than a single http/ftp
> > download.
>
> It is far less reliable than a single ftp/http from a good server if the
> download method gets chunks from multiple servers of which some are good
> and some are bad. The unreliabilities of each chunk(-server) are
> multiplied here. A chunked download without chunked checking isn't worth
> the bother IMHO.
>
> > A single failure proves unreliability. A hundred sucesses do not prove
> > otherwise.
>
> Especially if the single failure is as bad as it possibly can.
>
> I had wget once wipe a download for me at the 2GB limit (on 128kbit
> cable, arrrgh). I didn't use it again for anything serious until that
> was fixed.
>
> Of course, rsync always works reliably and as a bonus, fixes things up
> too.

Could you update the page at http://en.opensuse.org/Metalinks with an
exact command.  My friends are out for a few days and there computer is
not online for me to quickly gramd the command I used.  I do not have the
time right now to look it up again and sort things out.

Thanks,

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