On 19-09-2015 10:53, Ralf Mardorf wrote:
On Sat, 19 Sep 2015 17:28:58 +0800, Anatol Pomozov wrote:
Hi
On Sat, Sep 19, 2015 at 5:24 PM, Ralf Mardorf <ralf.mardorf@rocketmail.com> wrote:
However, installing just a few packages instead of all packages needs to be done, if the Internet connection get interrupted too often to make a complete upgrade in one step. So a note by the Arch news IMO still is useful.
Pacman downloads all packages before installing any of them. So if you have a bad Internet connection then you'll be stuck at the first (download) step. It will not leave your system in broken state.
Yes, that's true, but I don't know when my ISP will fix the issue. Last time they needed several month to fix it, so I needed to update by installing just a few packages. It's also correct that this time I could install bash, readline, ncurses and few other packages in one step and the other > 100 packages one after the other. Anyway, one still needs to be aware about a chicken-and-egg problem. Interrupted Internet connections are not that seldom nowadays in Germany, https://allestörungen.de/, e.g. my provider: https://allestörungen.de/stoerung/o2 It might be not that much of an issue in other countries.
You can always do 'pacman -Syuw' until you manage to download all the packages. -- Mauro Santos