Re: [Cooker] urpmi rpm-cache

2002-12-09 Thread François Pons
Le lun 09/12/2002 à 13:34, Steffen Barszus a écrit : Is it possible somehow to make the rpm-cache persistent ? I have a ISDN-Dialup and so I don't want to download things twice. Or can I change urpmi in that way ? If so can you guide me how to do so ? use it with --noclean (or

Re: [Cooker] urpmi rpm-cache

2002-12-09 Thread Steffen Barszus
On Monday 09 December 2002 13:51, François Pons wrote: Le lun 09/12/2002 à 13:34, Steffen Barszus a écrit : Is it possible somehow to make the rpm-cache persistent ? I have a ISDN-Dialup and so I don't want to download things twice. Or can I change urpmi in that way ? If so can you guide me

Re: [Cooker] urpmi and cache

2002-02-13 Thread Franois Pons
Liam Quin [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On Wed, Feb 13, 2002 at 09:04:37AM +0300, Borsenkow Andrej wrote: How would you manage corrupted downloads? check the size isn't 0 (a common failure case), and check the checksum? Already taken into account in urpmi (or at least it should be).

Re: [Cooker] urpmi and cache

2002-02-12 Thread Franois Pons
Alexander Skwar [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: »Borsenkow Andrej« sagte am 2002-02-12 um 10:18:07 +0300 : It should delete if newer version has been downloaded. That assumes intelligent cache management. I do not say it not doable, may be everything is already there. Okay, I can agree with

Re: [Cooker] urpmi and cache

2002-02-12 Thread David Walluck
Alexander Skwar wrote: »Borsenkow Andrej« sagte am 2002-02-08 um 17:57:49 +0300 : I remember, many peoples complained that urpmi never cleaned up downloaded RPMs. Just as reminder. I cannot see easy solution that would please both. That's right, and I also complained about this. But the

Re: [Cooker] urpmi and cache

2002-02-12 Thread Liam Quin
On Tue, Feb 12, 2002 at 08:04:00AM +0100, Alexander Skwar wrote: »Liam Quin« sagte am 2002-02-08 um 14:26:56 -0500 : It would help if urpmi removed packages that were installed OK. Against. If I download some large package and install it, I'd like to keep it around for whatever reason. I

Re: [Cooker] urpmi and cache

2002-02-12 Thread Borsenkow Andrej
On ÷ÔÒ, 2002-02-12 at 20:48, David Walluck wrote: I agree, and you want to know why? It's because urpmi is so buggy. urpmi is not buggy. It can resolve only those dependencies that are listed in RPMs. Lots of times installation fails, Lots?! Come on, really. but you can go into the cache

Re: [Cooker] urpmi and cache

2002-02-12 Thread pascal
OK nice option, because what happens when you realize your new rpm does not work as expected and u wanna revert back to older version, but the mirrors do not have it anymore, or it is a very big package long to download. what is lacking (for the next version) is a mean to revert back to the

Re: [Cooker] urpmi and cache

2002-02-12 Thread Alexander Skwar
»Liam Quin« sagte am 2002-02-12 um 13:11:46 -0500 : On Tue, Feb 12, 2002 at 08:04:00AM +0100, Alexander Skwar wrote: »Liam Quin« sagte am 2002-02-08 um 14:26:56 -0500 : It would help if urpmi removed packages that were installed OK. Against. If I download some large package and

RE: [Cooker] urpmi and cache

2002-02-12 Thread Borsenkow Andrej
Now, if urpmi would only delete files from /var/cache if they are obsoleted (ie. a newer file is to be downloaded), than I would not have to do this by hand. So I think that /var/cache is the right mechanism. How would you manage corrupted downloads? You download, get truncated RPM and

Re: [Cooker] urpmi and cache

2002-02-12 Thread Liam Quin
On Wed, Feb 13, 2002 at 09:04:37AM +0300, Borsenkow Andrej wrote: How would you manage corrupted downloads? check the size isn't 0 (a common failure case), and check the checksum? Liam -- Liam Quin - XML Activity Lead, W3C, http://www.w3.org/People/Quin/ Ankh: irc.sorcery.net

RE: [Cooker] urpmi and cache

2002-02-12 Thread Borsenkow Andrej
On Wed, Feb 13, 2002 at 09:04:37AM +0300, Borsenkow Andrej wrote: How would you manage corrupted downloads? check the size isn't 0 (a common failure case), and check the checksum? Yes, that is what I meant under intelligent cache management. It much more job than just delete once in a

Re: [Cooker] urpmi and cache

2002-02-11 Thread Alexander Skwar
»Borsenkow Andrej« sagte am 2002-02-08 um 17:57:49 +0300 : I remember, many peoples complained that urpmi never cleaned up downloaded RPMs. Just as reminder. I cannot see easy solution that would please both. That's right, and I also complained about this. But the issue back in the day was

Re: [Cooker] urpmi and cache

2002-02-11 Thread Alexander Skwar
»Liam Quin« sagte am 2002-02-08 um 14:26:56 -0500 : It would help if urpmi removed packages that were installed OK. Against. If I download some large package and install it, I'd like to keep it around for whatever reason. Then remove packages older than a week, is my suggestion, for a

RE: [Cooker] urpmi and cache

2002-02-11 Thread Borsenkow Andrej
»Borsenkow Andrej« sagte am 2002-02-08 um 17:57:49 +0300 : I remember, many peoples complained that urpmi never cleaned up downloaded RPMs. Just as reminder. I cannot see easy solution that would please both. That's right, and I also complained about this. But the issue back in the

Re: [Cooker] urpmi and cache

2002-02-08 Thread Franois Pons
Vincent Jaubert [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: When i try do install some packages with urpmi and the installation fails, why does urpmi refetch the packages again instead of using the packages already in the cache ? You problably have called urpmi with different command line between, and urpmi

Re: Re: [Cooker] urpmi and cache

2002-02-08 Thread jjlapin
You problably have called urpmi with different command line between, and urpmi clean cache before installing instead of after installing. Would it be possible to add an option to preserve the cache (like apt-get does) ? --

Re: [Cooker] urpmi and cache

2002-02-08 Thread Franois Pons
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: You problably have called urpmi with different command line between, and urpmi clean cache before installing instead of after installing. Would it be possible to add an option to preserve the cache (like apt-get does) ? Oh, yes ? François.

RE: [Cooker] urpmi and cache

2002-02-08 Thread Borsenkow Andrej
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: You problably have called urpmi with different command line between, and urpmi clean cache before installing instead of after installing. Would it be possible to add an option to preserve the cache (like apt-get does) ? Oh, yes ? I remember, many

Re: RE: [Cooker] urpmi and cache

2002-02-08 Thread jjlapin
I remember, many peoples complained that urpmi never cleaned up downloaded RPMs. Just as reminder. I cannot see easy solution that would please both. So, could it be possible to update the packages list for apt-get so that we could use it instead (it has all the features i need). Thx

RE: RE: [Cooker] urpmi and cache

2002-02-08 Thread Borsenkow Andrej
I remember, many peoples complained that urpmi never cleaned up downloaded RPMs. Just as reminder. I cannot see easy solution that would please both. So, could it be possible to update the packages list for apt-get so that we could use it instead (it has all the features i need). Or

Re: [Cooker] urpmi and cache

2002-02-08 Thread Liam Quin
On Fri, Feb 08, 2002 at 05:57:49PM +0300, Borsenkow Andrej wrote: I remember, many peoples complained that urpmi never cleaned up downloaded RPMs. Just as reminder. I cannot see easy solution that would please both. A cache generally has two main parameters: (1) how large the cache can grow