On 2008/11/10 11:55 (GMT+0100) Peter Poeml composed:
It should do the same as Yum, IMO: download metadata + packages, and when that fails at any point, you'd refresh the local metadata and start over, and once you have a consistent state on your system (including packages) _then_ start the actual update.
That can't work consistently on systems with limited / space. Most of my installs use a small / partition, so downloading all packages first can easily fill up / before installation of any packages starts. It happens to me frequently on systems using apt-get. Smart defaults to downloading everything first, so I have to work around that with small scripts that divide the task into manageable chunks. It has a stepped option, but the first time it runs into an unavailable package, it halts instead of trying to do any other packages. URPMI defaults to downloading small bunches, installing them, then repeating. I like that about it, and that zypper is more like it than smart or apt-get. -- "Love is not easily angered. Love does not demand its own way." 1 Corinthians 13:5 NIV Team OS/2 ** Reg. Linux User #211409 Felix Miata *** http://fm.no-ip.com/ -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-factory+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-factory+help@opensuse.org