> When the debian-installer cannot successfully download a package from > the net due to a broken TCP connection, it does neither re-try to fetch > the package nor does it prompt the user what to do. > > When I installed that day the installer did *not* inform me of any > packages it failed to download or install, although half the packages > were missing after re-boot (I only got the command line, no gnome).
D-I developers (especially joeyh), wouldn't this actually be something like "apt should offer an option to retry downloading" ? AFAIK, the D-I composent that retrieves things from the net (net-retriever) *does* offer an option to retry downloads....but when the download of packages in the "Install software" step is involved, it indeed depends on downloads performed by APT.... Correct?
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