rpm and wget -c
Todd Zullinger
tmz at pobox.com
Fri Oct 5 22:50:54 UTC 2007
Ric Moore wrote:
> Wow, just played with the command rpm --showrc to see just what
> ftp'ish command is used by rpm (and hence yum). I'm not easily
> finding that info.
Actually, yum doesn't use rpm to do the downloading. And rpm, AIUI,
uses some custom code to do downloads when you pass it a URL.
> Stuck out here in the toolies, running a 56k modem at 28.8 because
> the phone lines are all crappy this far from the central phone
> banks, can I convince rpm (then yum) to "resume" the download, if my
> connection is broken??
I don't think you can do that, though I'd be happy to be wrong on
that. What you can do that may be a big help, is to install
yum-presto. Presto uses delta rpms to dramatically reduce the amount
of bits you need to download for updates. Check out the project page
for instructions on setting it up:
https://hosted.fedoraproject.org/projects/presto/
I'm pretty sure that one of the main presto authors, Jonathan Dieter,
is on this list. I have a fat pipe, so I don't use presto much, but
if I were on a slow connection, I'd be sending beer money to him. ;)
> As Marvin the paranoid robot said, "I'm depressed.", and "I have the
> brain the size of a planet ...and I'm parking cars."
Hehe.
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