[Mageia-dev] RFC: Improvements for ioquake3 package and related games

Pascal Terjan pterjan at gmail.com
Wed Nov 30 10:14:54 CET 2011


On Wed, Nov 30, 2011 at 08:58, zezinho <lists.jjorge at free.fr> wrote:
>
> 1.Will the download have a nice window? I mean download speed/time till end,
> stop button, etc. Because this are big downloads, not like flash-player-plugin.
>
> 2. As user, I would expect the download to happen at install time, rather than
> first run. It could be run in the post?

But what happens if the download fails in %post?
You will end up with the package installed and the game not usable

At least in %pre it will prevent the package from installing, but this
will fail all the transaction


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