Bug 444929

Summary: Download resume support for packages
Product: [openSUSE] openSUSE 11.1 Reporter: Forgotten User 10buyl7JnO <forgotten_10buyl7JnO>
Component: YaST2Assignee: Jan Kupec <jkupec>
Status: RESOLVED FEATURE QA Contact: Jiri Srain <jsrain>
Severity: Enhancement    
Priority: P5 - None    
Version: Final   
Target Milestone: ---   
Hardware: i686   
OS: openSUSE 11.0   
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Description Forgotten User 10buyl7JnO 2008-11-14 05:35:28 UTC
Yast2 is great tool for package management. One thing I think should be implemented to make it more usable. There are times when I install or update any package and if internet connection is interrupted, I have to retry or skip the package. If package is big, retry results in more time being spent in downloading same package. In worst case again connection is interrupted and we can't download the package at all. I have encountered the condition where after 5-10 attempts also package can not be downloaded. I think if download resume mechanism is implemented in Yast2, it'll be great feature so we get one more option to resume download along with skip, retry and abort so that package download will start from where it was interrupted and we don't waste time downloading big package again. I think this should be easy to implement as several tools like wget, kget, etc already have this support and this can be implemented in Yast2 also.
Comment 1 Jan Kupec 2008-11-14 16:24:08 UTC
Hi, thanx! Sure, we want this, too, but other things took priority. This feature request is tracked as FATE #120326, so i'll close your report as FEATURE until its done.