New vegastrike for F-10: 500MB !! ??
James Antill
james at fedoraproject.com
Mon Apr 28 07:22:30 UTC 2008
On Sun, 2008-04-27 at 14:21 -0600, Stephen John Smoogen wrote:
> On Sun, Apr 27, 2008 at 1:23 AM, Nigel Jones <dev at nigelj.com> wrote:
> > I have no problem with it, BUT, (and I speak personally here), there are
> > some people that will not use it because it's just too big (500MB is
> > larger than some of the monthly data transfer caps in New Zealand
> > (200MB/mo), I personally, only have 700MB/day.
> >
>
> This sounds like a new yum plugin. "Cap my downloads to X/day" so that
> packages that are larger than that cap get marked etc.
While that's appealing, it's _much_ harder to be 100% accurate than it
might appear. The problems include:
1. presto
2. User hitting Control-c in middle of download.
3. Metadata downloads.
4. Yum/urlgrabber re-downloading broken downloads.
...I'll probably have a go at being "good enough" anyway. Although yum
really needs info. from other layers and a couple of UI things already
have above related problems anyway, so fixing this layering problem
would solve a couple of things.
--
James Antill <james at fedoraproject.com>
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