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).
>
No, I just did it last night. It takes exactly the same amount of time
(about an hour in my case) although it didn't bother to display the file
names again. (Just displayed 'Calling debootstrap' for that hour until it
got back to where it left off). The disk activity was the same also.
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