rpm and wget -c

Tim ignored_mailbox at yahoo.com.au
Sat Oct 6 13:37:43 UTC 2007


Ric Moore:
>> Stuck out here in the toolies, running a 56k modem at 28.8 because the
>> phone lines are all crappy this far from the central phone banks, can
>> I convince rpm (then yum) to "resume" the download, if my connection
>> is broken?? 

Tim:
> Here, yum can resume a broken download.  However, resuming also depends
> on the server.

I've just remembered something:  There's a yum.conf option for keeping
the cached files.  Perhaps your caching option is off, and it doesn't
handle broken downloads very well.

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