On 19/11/09 14:46, Constantinos Galilei wrote:
On Wednesday November 18 2009 9:32:30 pm Basil Chupin wrote:
On 19/11/09 13:15, Constantinos Galilei wrote:
Nine-point-something gigabytes. Makes sense, I haven't updated in a few months.
9+GB sounds just a bit too much. Something not quite right here.
No, it's right. I have a lot from the games repo.
OK.
Now, here's the thing. I have 11.0. Yes, I'm slow to upgrade. I go about every other version, so a few months from now, I'm updating to 11.2. So I'm betting (hoping) someone will tell me that something like this has been added since my version.
So, I'm ready. Tell me. Allay my annoyances. Please.
Firstly, we are now up to v11.2, which I am running, and do not remember how things work/ed in 11.0.
Yes, 11.2 just came out. Exactly why I'm going to upgrade in a few months. :D
Do it TOMORROW! :-) You won't be sorry.
However, while there have been improvements in YaST in 11.2 the RETRY - SKIP - ABORT is still there and, if you are using YaST, then you need to select the action.
Can't they at least allow me to "Skip all" or something so I don't have to sit here forever? Even when I'm just updating KDE, I'll get halfway through it, and then most of the files will no longer download because they were updated on the server and the only way to avoid THAT hassle is with another hassle - aborting, waiting to make sure they get it all done, then start over again.
Are they any "wish-for" in the (?)Bugzilla about this? If not why point this out in a bug report ('cause I cannot help :-) )?
BUT, the much better way to go, at least in 11.2, is to use from the command line "zypper refresh" and "zypper dup (or up, depending)". When zypper dup, or up, starts it will automatically restart a download should you lose connection and it chooses an alternate site if it cannot download a file from the "first" one. About the only time you need to respond is during "zypper refresh" when it finds that some repository cannot be accessed for zypper to refresh, or when it has to import a key for the repo.
I love zypper. It just acts like I have a small portion of what I actually have installed. Similarly, there are things on the repos that zypper doesn't seem to be able to find. I'll open up Yast, look in the same repo, and right there is what I want.
Yesterday, I tried zypper up amsn. It told me that package wasn't installed. rpm called it a liar.
I forgot to mention that you need to have your repos correctly selected, and have their priorities (over others) set correctly. zypper is not yet absolutely perfect. Only this morning the KDE Updater Applet (or whatever its called) "told" me that there were updates to my (11.2) system. So I go into the "zypper routine" and zypper downloaded a number of files. I then "told" the Applet to recheck for updates -- and it came back and showed that there WERE still updates to be done! In fact, there was only one, which appears to have been some security update, but, nevertheless, zypper did not pick it up (and therefore did not update it). Oh, there is also something called "aria2" which some people are rather fond of but I have never tried it. BC -- I work to live not live to work. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org