On 09/19/2015 06:28 AM, Ralf Mardorf wrote:
On Sat, 19 Sep 2015 11:16:11 +0100, Mauro Santos wrote:
You can always do 'pacman -Syuw' until you manage to download all the packages.
A pacman -Syu will do the same as a pacman -Syuw when it can't download all packages ;). However, a user perhaps wants to update a few packages that are important for development or regarding security issues and might try to update other packages some days later, then Syu(w) isn't an option. IMO we don't need to discuss this, likely most Arch users don't suffer from bad Internet connections. Even if others should have bad Internet connections too, it seldom happens that the dependency issue for something important as the login shell happens.
Regards, Ralf
Have you considered using delta[1] packages? They're at their best when in a situation like yours, where the time+cpu patching and recompressing the packages is significantly less than the time trying to download hundreds of megabytes over a lousy connection. [1] https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Deltup -- Eli Schwartz