Specifying How Yum Downloads Updates

Robert L Cochran cochranb at speakeasy.net
Thu Apr 16 00:45:56 UTC 2009



On 04/15/2009 06:56 PM, Kevin Kofler wrote:
> Robert L Cochran wrote:
>    
>> I didn't realize this was such an issue with people. It seems sort of
>> like bicycle buying to me. Some people want performance bikes, some want
>> road bikes. Some want expensive ones and others want cheap models. Maybe
>> I'll try downloading the yum source and see if I can reinstate the
>> download-by-package size option. I can live with the download
>> alphabetically option, but I really did like getting most of the
>> packages downloaded within a few minutes at most with the larger stuff
>> coming last. I always check what Yum wants to download first before I
>> answer 'y' to continuing, so I know perfectly well what packages are
>> coming in.
>>      
>
> I consider this "smallest first" behavior to be horribly deceptive and
> misleading (it makes you believe you're much farther into the download than
> you actually are) and I'm glad it got changed to something more logical.
>
>          Kevin Kofler
>
>    
The former way worked fine. There was no deception: recall that when a 
package is being downloaded, there are two percentage figures shown on 
the console output line. The first shows how complete the total download 
is. The second shows how complete the download for that particular 
package is. You could see reasonably accurate numbers right there. Many 
other software update utilities such as Microsoft Update don't show that 
much detail. And the way yum ordered downloads caused no one any 
problems. It is all a matter of perception, I guess!

Bob






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