Mailinglist Archive: opensuse-factory (420 mails)

[Gabriel <gabriel.sgt@xxxxxxxxx>]

Cristian Rodriguez 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.

I'm not telling doing as smart. What the download model has to do with
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 there is a good reason, I would like to know which is it.

> If a problem occur during the download phase,
>> just retry from the last successful downloaded package.
> 
> and it should "resume" a download as well ;)

Sure.

> 
>> 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.
> 

What if you don't want to update all the packages, but just some group
of them. It has not sense rsync the entire update tree.


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