On Čet, 2007-10-04 at 07:48 -0300, Gabriel wrote: > Cristian Rodriguez escribió: > >> First download all > >> packages (keeping them on a special location), and after finishing the > >> download, install them. > > that is called "transaction", I suspect that there is a good reason why > > it is not implemented the way you suggest. > If there is a good reason, I would like to know which is it.
Me too. I must say I didn't figure what's the purpose of that approach. For instance, Yum also downloads all the packages first, then updates them. Since I'm still officially a Fedora user (I'll switch to openSUSE 10.3 over the weekend), I'm quite familiar with Yum. And the funny thing is that Fedora developers also don't like SmartPM very much. > > If a problem occur during the download phase, > >> just retry from the last successful downloaded package. > > and it should "resume" a download as well ;) > Sure. But what if we broke dependencies because of stop downloading? -- Igor Jagec
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