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Re: [opensuse-factory] suggested work around for zypper/libzypp
- From: Cristian Rodriguez <crrodriguez@xxxxxxx>
- Date: Thu, 04 Oct 2007 00:01:47 -0400
- Message-id: <470465AB.2030201@xxxxxxx>
Gabriel . escribió:
> IMHO, using the 'smart' approach would be better.
No, you end having almost the same problem.. We have explained this many
times, smart is **no** model to follow for a package manager, it is
inconsistent and it does **not work** properly in 64 bit.
> First download all
> packages (keeping them on a special location), and after finishing the
> download, install them.
that is called "transaction", I suspect that there is a good reason why
it is not implemented the way you suggest.
If a problem occur during the download phase,
> just retry from the last successful downloaded package.
and it should "resume" a download as well ;)
> Having the choice to keep the downloaded files would be useful too if
> someone want to update another system without the need to download all
> again.
IF you need to update more than one system, then rsync the update tree
and pragate updates via NFS or something.
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> IMHO, using the 'smart' approach would be better.
No, you end having almost the same problem.. We have explained this many
times, smart is **no** model to follow for a package manager, it is
inconsistent and it does **not work** properly in 64 bit.
> First download all
> packages (keeping them on a special location), and after finishing the
> download, install them.
that is called "transaction", I suspect that there is a good reason why
it is not implemented the way you suggest.
If a problem occur during the download phase,
> just retry from the last successful downloaded package.
and it should "resume" a download as well ;)
> Having the choice to keep the downloaded files would be useful too if
> someone want to update another system without the need to download all
> again.
IF you need to update more than one system, then rsync the update tree
and pragate updates via NFS or something.
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