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

[Anatol Pomozov]

Hi

On Mon, Apr 19, 2021, 02:46 Morgan Adamiec <morganamilo at archlinux.org>
wrote:

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>
> On 19/04/2021 13:39, Andrew Gregory wrote:
> > 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.
>
> Ah yeah I guess databases makes sense. But why not just have
> allow_resume as false for those downloads and allow package downloads to
> continue?
>

If it cannot update the packages database the there is not much sense to
start downloading packages.

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