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List:       opensuse-factory
Subject:    Re: [opensuse-factory] Zypper vs Yum: Lacking Features discussion
From:       Josef Reidinger <jreidinger () suse ! cz>
Date:       2008-08-29 9:49:17
Message-ID: 48B7C61D.4000004 () suse ! cz
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Fridrich Strba wrote:
> Alexey Eremenko wrote:
>> More seriously:
>> -I have heard that yum has ability to show the package changelog diff
>> for pacakges to be updated, while zypper lacks it
>> -yum shows the repository from which the package will be installed.
>> (Very useful if you have many repos with duplicate packages.)
> 
> Other thing is that yum will not abort on impossibility to download a
> package. Basically, on a flaky network connection, doing "yum -y update;
> yum -y update; yum -y update" will succeed because the packages are
> first all downloaded and when impossible to do so, next one is
> downloaded. This is something that facilitates nightly unattended upgrades.
> 
> Cheers
> 
> Fridrich

If you try zypper in 11.0 it if happen soft error (like temporary denial 
service), it try after 60 seconds again and have 3 attempts and then 
fail. So if problem is temporary, then you update during night.
Josef

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