rpm and wget -c

[Matthew Miller]

On Fri, Oct 05, 2007 at 06:24:22PM -0400, 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. 

As others have noted, rpm and yum use different mechanisms. (There's talk of
dropping rpm's internal ftp/http code in a future release, by the way.)

Yum uses python-urlgrabber, which actually does in fact support resuming
partial downloads. 

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