Bugzilla – Bug 403673
Yast Package Manager(Software Management) - automatically skip/retry failed packages
Last modified: 2008-10-02 17:20:42 UTC
1.If during package download,internet connection breaks,then returns,PM is hung up.It cannot reconnect and continue by itself.After long time,it comes up with an error message.(This contnues from 10.1 - or since I started using) 2.If PM cannot download a package for network related reasons,it doesn't continue till user intervenes.This makes it incapable of unattended update/installation.Compare this with Synaptic behaviuor where if network connection is ON,it continues to download and install other packages and displays error on un-downloaded and dependent packages only in the end.(This contnues from 10.1 - or since I started using) 3.I read somewhere that from OS 11.0 onwards,PM can automatically detect and connect to mirrors to download.But,there is no evidence of that in my observation.I have a broadband connection of 2 Mbps and higher.But,in my use of OS 11.0 RC1 and Final,PM nowhere is able to make good use of my bandwideth.It's speed often is a few Bytes/sec and finally it throws up in error.I have tested my connection exact at the time of this occurrence to come to this conclusion. 4.There is still no good amount of proper integration and segregation among 'security update','upgrade','dist-upgrade'.What amount of this is visible in zypper is not visible/apparent in Yast PM. 5.Though Repository management is included in 'software management' in yast,there are too many overlapping choices in yast-software group.Compare this with Synaptic or fedora package management. At this time,OS package management is riddled with irritants though it's backend is claimed much superior to it's above mentioned competitors.
Must Yast refresh cache everytime?You install packages,close package manager,re-open it to install a few more.It refreshes cache again!Does it expect newer packages every minute?can't there be a time based algorithm for refreshment? Or like Synaptic,user initiated refreshment?I know OS 11.0 allows you to turn-off auto-refreshing,but that exactly(auto-refreshing) is setup by the OS.Even if it is on,why every minute refreshment?That's insane.
Please, open a separate report for each problem next time, it's (almost) impossible to track more problems in one report. 1) Depending on error type yast (libzypp) in some cases retries downloading. 2) Sounds like a good feature request... 3) AFAIK the mirrors must be supported on the server side, it should be supported by software.opensuse.org. Parallel download in one of the future features. 4) I don't see a problem there: "security update" = use 'yast2 online_update' or the opensuse-updater applet. "upgrade" = select the packages to upgrade in the package manager "dist-upgrade" = boot from the upgrade medium and select "upgrade" instead of fresh install or install "yast2-update-FACTORY" package for updating the system 5) The problem has already been reported, I just cannot find the bug number right now. To comment #1: Yes, there is a timeout between the refreshes. See Refresh section in 'man zypper'.
*** Bug 409467 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
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*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 396159 ***