Hi Jay, On Tue, Feb 10, 2009 at 01:59:50PM +0100, Carlos E. R. wrote:
On Tuesday, 2009-02-10 at 12:16 +0530, Jay Mistry wrote: I don't know.
This is my basic question. It is a bit difficult to explain (perhaps a screenshot would help & will post one when I next do an update & when this behaviour occurs), but I hope I have been able to convey gist of the problem.
PS: About my question to Carlos' reply (quote above), I am relatively new to Linux (about 4 mo) and have used CLI infrequently, so not too familiar with it.
the folks on the zypp-devel@opensuse.org mailing list might be able to give more specific advice.
Then I would be rather hesitant about what to recommend. You'd have to experiment. Look at the sourcecode, perhaps...
Are you using 11.1? You can try another thing. Type:
export ZYPP_ARIA2C=1
in the same xterm where you start zypper or yast, as root. This is an experimental feature, it changes the download program and method to a new one. If it works, it does work better and faster, but I say that it is experimental and I mean it: they want people reporting how it works, problems, etc. It has known bugs, like repo modification not working.
However, it is expected to gracefully solve access or timeout problems. If you search the archive for that token you will find the original mail where this was reported.
Carlos, thanks for pointing to this. It is important to get feedback about this experimental stuff. I am updating the page http://en.opensuse.org/Libzypp/Failover with known issues and the status quo. Dave, thanks for the hint with the different behaviour of YaST and zypper. I updated the wiki page with that info. Peter -- Contact: admin@opensuse.org (a.k.a. ftpadmin@suse.com) #opensuse-mirrors on freenode.net Info: http://en.opensuse.org/Mirror_Infrastructure SUSE LINUX Products GmbH Research & Development