On Thu, Oct 23, 2003 at 12:20:24PM -0700, ekg@tricity.wsu.edu wrote:
I see this all the time. Why is it that the installer doesn't allow you to retry a package ... and instead errors out and dies...
I actually tested my media and I still had the problem at some point in my installation.
Bottom line though it shouldn't just die. Give a chance to retry, abort, or ignore...and continue giving that chance until the USER decides to abort.
I'm afraid I'll have to second this opinion. Have seen this on faulty cd-rom drives which will randomly refuse to read portions of the disc. While no package that failed to open was critical to the install, the fact that even one package couldn't be opened deep-sixed the whole installation.
I don't know what the difference is, but anaconda does try to retry when it cannot read a package. I have had questions pop up with a cancel and retry button, and once it asked for cd 1 (which it had) and ejected the cd and continued after reinserting the cd. (BTW; this was not a bug in FC, it was a defective cdrom player)
so I guess the mechanism is there already, but not invoked on every error?
David
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David Jansen