setup 2.194.2.24: Bug (?) in downloading from internet

[Robert Collins]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Christopher Faylor [mailto:cgf@redhat.com] 
> Sent: Monday, April 29, 2002 3:07 PM

> >That's what the discussion has been about for the last week or so. 
> >After lots of requests for this functionality, the position 
> eventually 
> >hardened to "it's not a download tool".
> 
> Right.  But it started with my suggesting this behavior was a 
> bug and (I
> thought) Robert agreeing.  So, I thought it was time to chime 
> in again.

The *redownloading* is a bug, and will get fixed. The 'I want to mirror
non-installed packages by using download' is not.

> The bottom line is that if we have to tell someone to use 
> wget or rsync just to do a normal install, something is wrong.

These folk aren't doing a normal install. They want to use download
mode, and then *not* install what was downloaded. 
A 'normal' install - download and install - works fine, no problems.
 
> It seems like this problem would be trivially fixed by not 
> attempting to redownload something that has already been downloaded.

I've also expressed this opinion. But... redownloading is a current
'feature'. It's one I don't think we need, and that we can get rid of -
which will correct the problem.

A reference for this is
http://sources.redhat.com/ml/cygwin-apps/2001-11/msg00271.html.

Rob

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