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Re: Make debootstrap re-entrant?



On Fri, Nov 02, 2001 at 03:27:59PM +1000, Anthony Towns wrote:
> On Thu, Nov 01, 2001 at 07:47:57AM -0700, Chris Tillman wrote:
> > It can't think of any reason not to make debootstrap's downloading of debs
> > more friendly. I had my base install interrupted tonight and I had to wait
> > through all the same downloads again, although they were already there on
> > the disk.
> 
> Eh?
> 
> Successful downloads are already skipped (and sizes and checksums are
> already checked).

not unless you tell it to use null: as a mirror, which you can't do
if it died midway.  otherwise it just starts over from scratch.

-- 
Ethan Benson
http://www.alaska.net/~erbenson/

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