Feature changed by: Robert Davies (robopensuse) Feature #305624, revision 19 Title: Allow downloading all packages before installing openSUSE-11.2: Evaluation Priority Requester: Important Requested by: Jiri Srain (jsrain) Partner organization: openSUSE.org Description: Libzypp should allow to set a policy to first download all packages and afterwards install all packages at once. It should be considered whether to enable this policy under some scenarios (e.g. makes sense for online update, but not for distro installation) References: https://bugzilla.novell.com:443/show_bug.cgi?id=448040 Relations: - Suggestion for download failure handling from openSUSE-factory (url: http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-factory/2009-01/msg00564.html) Discussion: #1: Stanislav Visnovsky (visnov) (2009-01-28 15:56:51) I see this as a pre-requisite for in running-system distribution upgrade reliability. + #3: Robert Davies (robopensuse) (2009-01-29 16:56:54) (reply to #1) + Could this be better achieved by some general package cache-ing tool + that can serve a LAN, providing packages from HDD, DVD or http/ftp + download as appropriate? Upgrading by making a local copy of all + packages in somewhere like /var/cache is going to explode disk space + requirements. If the disk is nearly full, then both throughput and + fragmentation worsen. In degenerate case of single PC LAN, the server + can be run locally, which might ease the opposite policy of pipelining + downloads to accelerate install speeds when most rpm's are available + locally, but some need an update downloaded. #2: Stanislav Visnovsky (visnov) (2009-01-29 13:02:26) A suggestion on openSUSE-factory mailing list was to continue downloading all packages, deferring the errors until all that are donwloadable are indeed on the disk. -- openSUSE Feature: https://features.opensuse.org/305624