maparus Posted May 5, 2006 Report Share Posted May 5, 2006 I'm stuck with a dial-up access and it takes forever to download a large file. I'm about to update my computer again through Urpmi. If I were to loose connection or need to stop the download will I loose everything and have to start all over? When I was using Suse if I were to interupt the download, Yast would install all completed downloads that has been downloaded at that point. When I update this time I'll want to install more than one or two updates at a time like I did the last time I updated Mandriva many thanks maparus Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
arctic Posted May 5, 2006 Report Share Posted May 5, 2006 Urpmi is a bit like a "frontend" to download managers like wget (by default, urpmi uses wget for downloading). If you cancel a download, urpmi should be able to continue that download later. It will only install the files once the downloads are complete. Before that, they will be stored in the /var/cache folder. That is, if I am not completely mistaken (currently I am on my fedora box, thus can't verify that right now). Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bvc Posted May 6, 2006 Report Share Posted May 6, 2006 I haven't updated since 2005LE but that has always been the case (urpmi>wget=it will resume/continue the downloads) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ianw1974 Posted May 6, 2006 Report Share Posted May 6, 2006 I've used urpmi on Mandriva, and by default it doesn't continue downloads. It starts from the beginning. Sometimes, you have to clear /var/cache/urpmi/partial or rpms directory because it won't start the downloads again. I presume there must be a switch or configuration parameter for urpmi somewhere to enable the resume option. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
arctic Posted May 6, 2006 Report Share Posted May 6, 2006 Yes, there is the option. I just had a look at urpmi and it is very simple: urpmi --resume Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ianw1974 Posted May 6, 2006 Report Share Posted May 6, 2006 I wonder if there is a config file that you could do this in, so that it's automatically enabled by default. I'll have to check on this :P Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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