[pacman-dev] [PATCH] libalpm: download rates becoming negative

[Andrew Gregory]

On 04/19/21 at 01:32pm, Morgan Adamiec wrote:
>
> > Because the file may not be the same after we fallback to a different
> > server.
> >
>
> That shouldn't be the case though. Do we actually support that use case?

Yes.  Databases.

> >> In fact I don't see the point of this variable at all. Why would we ever
> >> not want to unlink on fail?
> >
> > So that it can be resumed later.
> >
>
> I guess, though the above point applies. it may be a different mirror
> and therefore the file may not be the same. So I feel if you can resume
> between pacman calls you should be able to resume between servers.