yum on a dial up with 2 hour limit

[Nifty Hat Mitch]

On Wed, Sep 01, 2004 at 12:30:14AM +0100, Sam Tygier wrote:
> Date: Wed, 01 Sep 2004 00:30:14 +0100
> From: Sam Tygier <samtygier at yahoo.co.uk>
> To: "fedora-list at redhat.com" <fedora-list at redhat.com>
> Subject: yum on a dial up with 2 hour limit
> Reply-To: For users of Fedora Core releases <fedora-list at redhat.com>
> 
> yum on a dial up with 2 hour limit
> 
> this limits to about 20mb
> 
> i know its possible to download the rpm with something like gftp or wget 
> and put them in the right folder, but this is a bit of a hassle.
> 
> any ideas?

Do file an RFE against yum and company to do reget type things if the
file is 'short'.   I have lost count of the number of times yum and
up2date time out and the local chunk fails the checksum test.  Then
a new download is started.   Fixing this could help the load on mirrors
and should be done...

For now use.

  Wget - The non-interactive network downloader.

   If the server supports regetting, it will instruct the server to
   continue the download from where it left off.



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