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Re: Bug#33032: apt: apt does not count partial files whewn showing how many ks to download



On Sun, 7 Feb 1999 Cesar.Barros@web4u.com.br wrote:

> Need to get 8942k of archives. After unpacking 26.3M will be used.
> 
> The only thing I was getting was emacs20, and I already had got 2MBs of it (and
> yeah, apt tried to resume).
> 
> It should say something like 4096k/8942k.

Sorry, but there is no way to tell if the file can be resumed before
actually trying to download it, so either way the estimate will be wrong
for some people. I think it is better to estimate high than it is to
estimate low :>

Jason


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