yum on a dial up with 2 hour limit

[sam tygier]

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?

thanks

ps

has anyone tried any yum GUIs, i see one from cobind, any experiences?

thanks

[Tom Mitchell]

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 
> To: "[e-mail]" 
> Subject: yum on a dial up with 2 hour limit
> Reply-To: For users of Fedora Core releases
>
> 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.

[James Wilkinson]

Sam Tygier wrote:
> yum on a dial up with 2 hour limit
>
> this limits to about 20mb

Commiserations.
> 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.

Use yum check-update to see what's available.

Try yum update $PACKAGENAME to just update one package plus dependencies.

To the best of my knowledge, you're most likely to get caught on kernel,
glibc, or x.org updates. If you can't get them in the time limit, then
you might have to do wget on those.

Bad luck.

James.