Specifying How Yum Downloads Updates

Patrick O'Callaghan pocallaghan at gmail.com
Tue Apr 14 14:08:08 UTC 2009


On Tue, 2009-04-14 at 18:35 +0430, Adrin Jalali wrote:
> 
> 
> On Tue, Apr 14, 2009 at 3:44 PM, shmuel siegel
> <fedora at shmuelhome.mine.nu> wrote:
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>         
>         
>         Obviously, some people have different criteria from you as to
>         what appeals to them. There is some value to knowing which
>         files remain to be downloaded. I personally found the pkg size
>         behavior more pleasing. (Seth, I thought that you would want
>         confirmation that you can't win)
>         But I will agree that "raving" is a bit extreme.
>         
> 
> I myself strongly prefer packages to be downloaded alphabetically
> because it's easier to see which packages are remained. It's so usable
> for me as it's easier to write a script to download remaining packages
> using a multi-connection download manager.

I agree. I'm glad this change was made.

poc




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