Re: Re: (no subject)

>(Apr 02 2004 00:56) [email protected] wrote:
>> 
>> I noticed that, if the SWUP is started and ADSL connection is got down in
>> the middle of package download, SWUP hangs. No messages, no information,
>> /var/spool/swup/ shows the package dowloaded and it's size not changing. I
>> canceled the SWUP after 30min of waiting and started it again.
>> In this case the package, which is downloaded partialy, is redownloaded
>> from the begining.
>
>The download should reach a timeout, and die. I will look into this problem.
>
>> Is it possible to resume broken download?
>
>No. Not implemented anyway, and I don't consider it a very important
>feature at the moment, as this is rearly needed on production servers.
>Either you have a stable internet link or you use other means of
>upgrading. (internal mirror, proxy etc.)
>
>> Is it possible to show the size of downloaded package and download progress?
>
>We had that in earlier versions, but it was dropped due to the
>implementation being very dependent on urllib v. 1 shipped with older
>versions of python. I never cared enough about it to reimplement that
>feature. I will, however, accept patches adding these stats.
>
>
>regards
>
>Christian H. Toldnes
>Trustix Developer
>
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Thanks,

Zviad Giorgadze