why can't up2date resume downloads?

[Matheesha]

Would making up2date a ftp based application (as opposed to http) solve
this issue? I was hoping the ftp resume facility would help here.

M@

On Tue, 2003-10-07 at 22:22, Andre Robatino wrote:
>   As of RH 9, up2date was still incapable of resuming downloads, so that if
> the download was ended prematurely, one had to start over.  This seems only
> to affect those on low-speed connections such as dialup.  It manifests
> itself in a spurious error message
> 
> "The package < ... > does not have a valid GPG signature.
> It has been tampered with or corrupted.  Continue?"
> 
>   The real cause of the error is that the connection was dropped by the
> server, and instead of reconnecting, up2date prematurely checks the
> GPG signature of the truncated file, which fails.  One then has to start
> downloading from scratch.  This is irritation when one tries to download a
> 20 MB RPM over dialup, has it fail halfway through, and has to try half a
> dozen tries before success.  Of course, one could use wget and manually
> check the signature and do the install, but then why use up2date at all?
>   The problem is probably best explained in bug #86527.  There are also
> references to it in bugs 85808, 85763, and 92138.  There are probably
> many other references to it which I haven't found.  Only in 86527 did the
> reporter hit the nail on the head and he never got a response.
>   Initially I thought the lack of interest was simply that Red Hat's
> market doesn't include a lot of dialup customers, who are about the only
> ones affected.  However, after participating in the beta process, I
> realized that a beta tester almost has to have broadband, since one gets
> tens or even hundreds of MB/day of downloads.  These people never experience
> the bug.
>   By any chance, has this been addressed in the latest up2date?  If not, are
> there any plans to fix it?
> 
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