On Čet, 2007-10-04 at 07:48 -0300, Gabriel wrote:
Cristian Rodriguez escribió:
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.
Me too. I must say I didn't figure what's the purpose of that approach. For instance, Yum also downloads all the packages first, then updates them. Since I'm still officially a Fedora user (I'll switch to openSUSE 10.3 over the weekend), I'm quite familiar with Yum. And the funny thing is that Fedora developers also don't like SmartPM very much.
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.
But what if we broke dependencies because of stop downloading? -- Igor Jagec