Download additional software

[Paul Morgan]

On Mon, 2003-12-01 at 07:51, Panu Matilainen wrote:
> > > The amount of data to be downloaded is the same, whether you use
> > > apt/yum/up2date or download manually. There is absolutely NO BENEFIT
> > > whatsoever to download software manually rather than using
> > > apt/yum/up2date.
> > 
> > Amount of data is the same, but what to do in situations when your 
> > connection fails ? Can you continue download ? With all files on WWW I 
> > could use wget to continue download.

If you have multiple machines behind your dial-up gateway, you may want
to wget the packages from the standard yum or apt repos and put them on
a local server. Then yum-enable your local server and use it for your
internal network. This way you only download each pkg once.

-paul