accessing repositories

[Brian]

On Fri, Feb 23, 2007 at 02:04:22PM +0900, Gavin Chester wrote:
> On Thu, 2007-02-22 at 21:15 -0600, Mikus Grinbergs wrote:
> > Whenever a massive set of updates appears in the repositories
> > I access, I'm used to some of the downloads timing out, so that
> > I have to repeat the 'smart upgrade'.  Just had a clear view of
> > something else that might happen:
> > 
> >  -  Did a 'smart update', then 'smart upgrade'.  That listed
> >     many dozens of packages to be upgraded.  Went ahead -
> >     during their downloads, two of those packages timed out.
> > 
> >  -  Repeated the 'smart upgrade' - this time smart told me
> >     that those two packages could not be found.

Reminds me of my earlier post. I can do smart update followed by smart
install (package) and still get file not found. Yet the files appear to be
in the repository. This remains unresolved. Not sure what is happening.

Brian



> > 
> > I've concluded that in the interval between the update and
> > the download (I have a slow dial-up line), the versions of
> > those two packages available at that repository had been
> > *changed*.  Maybe smart should publicise a note of caution
> > that such situations might happen.
> > 
> > mikus
> 
> I can't see that being manageable - there would simply be too much noise
> on the list - among other headaches :-(
> 
> I am also on a slow dialup connection and have found two things make it
> work better: 1/ limit your simultaneous downloads to one or two files at
> a time with something like "smart update -o max-active-downloads=1" ;
> and, 2/ limit your updates to a small set of packages at any one time so
> that the update is completed quicker.  The latter is easier done from
> the gui, admittedly.
> 
> Gavin 
> 

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