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Bug 116473
Summary: | Incorrect error reporting on transfer error | ||
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Product: | [Fedora] Fedora | Reporter: | Alan Cox <alan> |
Component: | up2date | Assignee: | Bret McMillan <bretm> |
Status: | CLOSED WONTFIX | QA Contact: | Fanny Augustin <fmoquete> |
Severity: | low | Docs Contact: | |
Priority: | medium | ||
Version: | rawhide | ||
Target Milestone: | --- | ||
Target Release: | --- | ||
Hardware: | All | ||
OS: | Linux | ||
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Fixed In Version: | Doc Type: | Bug Fix | |
Doc Text: | Story Points: | --- | |
Clone Of: | Environment: | ||
Last Closed: | 2006-06-06 17:55:05 UTC | Type: | --- |
Regression: | --- | Mount Type: | --- |
Documentation: | --- | CRM: | |
Verified Versions: | Category: | --- | |
oVirt Team: | --- | RHEL 7.3 requirements from Atomic Host: | |
Cloudforms Team: | --- | Target Upstream Version: | |
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Bug Depends On: | |||
Bug Blocks: | 120068 |
Description
Alan Cox
2004-02-21 15:49:15 UTC
This bug has been around for about 2 years now. It would be nice if it could actually resume the download automatically (if necessary switching mirrors). This not only saves on bandwidth, but if someone is on dialup, needs to download a large package (I've seen 40 MB) and is unable/unwilling to wait long enough (for example if their ISP imposes a time limit), they need this feature. I get the impression that the keepers of the code are hoping that using mirrors will make this stop manifesting, so it doesn't need to be fixed. Not only is this bad programming practice (bugs should be fixed while they're obvious, otherwise they never get fixed and do damage forever), but as I pointed out above some people need to break up their downloads, even if the server doesn't quit. If resuming downloads isn't implemented, then at least the error message needs to be changed, so people know what's going on (maybe this will increase pressure to fix it, too). I've seen a fedora-list message where someone actually reinstalled because the GPG signature message led them to believe that their current install was corrupt! Not to mention the countless duplicate bug reports, like this one, which are typically ignored. Switched to yum, would suggest anyone else does the same if they hit this. FC thankfully now uses yum not up2date. Closing as obsolete |