Bugzilla – Bug 332175
errors during downloading - auto-retry failed download
Last modified: 2008-03-21 17:19:26 UTC
Currently installation/upgrade is too fragile. I upgraded two computers, one upgrade took me ~3 hours, no errors during downloading, the second upgrade over 6 hours. Why? Because there were errors during downloading (probably too much traffic to opensuse site), so very often computer displayed error for half an hour when I was busy doing something else. It is design flaw -- you cannot expect that user would sit straight for 3 hours staring at monitor. Not mentioning popular install/upgrade during the night. With such solution it won't work because installer could stop after 5 minutes, so after 8 hours of sleep, when user is expecting to see fresh system she/he just would see barely started process.
Hmm, I have a better idea -- auto-retry. For example, packages to download, A B C D A --> ok. B --> error -> auto-retry set to 10 seconds (user is asleep), after 10 seconds, error -> autoretry in 1 minute ... -> error --> autoretry in 10 minutes ... this time ok C --> ok D --> error, autoretry in 10 seconds (and so on) With such feature installation would be really automatic.
It's feature for pkg-bindings
Autoretry seems to be a good idea, postponing errors is not possible due to package dependencies (PreRequires).
This seems to be a duplicate of bug #328822 *** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 328822 ***