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The Wednesday 2007-10-03 at 19:28 -0300, Gabriel . wrote:
This will be a little enhancement for 11.0.
On current versions, using zypper to update is a bit dangerous when a
lot of packages are involved. For instance, zypper install the new
packages removing the old one immediately after download, if for some
reason the process can't finish ok (network problems, broken packages)
is possible to finish with a non working system.
Another improvement could be to generate a list of things to download,
then do the actual download on another machine, and somehow convert to a
patch dvd. This would help people not having fast network on their
machine.
Another would be not deleting downloaded patches (on request), and a
method to reuse them on machines of the same network, and thus reduce
bandwidth.
This was possible up to suse 10.0, I think.
Granted, this requires enough disk space for the operation. Maybe both
aproaches would be necesary (download/install one by one versus all).
Would that be feasible?
IMHO, using the 'smart' approach would be better. First download all
packages (keeping them on a special location), and after finishing the
download, install them. If a problem occur during the download phase,
just retry from the last successful downloaded package.
Having the choice to keep the downloaded files would be useful too if
someone want to update another system without the need to download all
again.
Just so.
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Cheers,
Carlos E. R.
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