Re: resuming apt-get downloads

[Brian Potkin <brian@copernicus.demon.co.uk>]

On Mon, Dec 31, 2001 at 11:59:35AM -0800, Osamu Aoki wrote:

> On Mon, Dec 31, 2001 at 01:19:07PM +0200, Serafim Zanikolas wrote:
> >    I've noticed that apt-get doesn't anymore resume a partially
> > downloaded package, it prefers to fetch the whole one.  Any hints?
> > 
> >    BTW I'm running an up-to-date testing system with apt 0.5.4
> 
> Which file transfer mode did you use and are you using?
>   FTP vs. HTTP
> 
> FTP can resume partialy downloaded file transfer.
> 
> HTTP can not resume partialy downloaded file but faster and easy on IP
> masquerading.

I don't know about the masquerading part but apt-get can certainly
resume an interupted download using HTTP.

Brian.