[Mageia-dev] An idea for improve URPMI ;)

Thu Sep 30 21:32:44 CEST 2010

one of the great advantages that I see that has URPMI about APT-GET is that
+while the updater downloads all the Debian packages first and then install them,
+the updater will Mandriva downloading and installing the package groups while ,
+which makes the process faster.
+
+However, we know that the download speed of connections is never constant and is
+full of ups and downs.
+
+Thus, if a connection can download 100MB in one hour, this does not mean that
+this will be downloaded at this period. The connection may even hang during the
+download process. There goes my idea:
+
+Can you reprogram URPMI to download packages from smaller to larger?
+
+Let me explain: imagine there is 100MB of updates that need to be downloaded.
+Say the user takes 1 hour to download everything. Suppose that the connection
+hangs after 20 minutes of downloading. Suppose further that the packages to be
+downloaded there is one of 32MB.
+
+If download process starts to this bigger package, when connection hangs, user
+will have only one - or part of one - package downloaded. But if downloading
+starts from smaller packages - those with a few KB - when he become offline,
+he'll have downloaded more packages and, perhaps, installed a lot of stuff.
+
+Of course, should be an option to user chooses how he wants download updates.
+
+