Problem upgrading larger packages on dialup

[Nigel Henry]

On Wednesday 27 February 2008 14:26, David Timms wrote:
> Nigel Henry wrote:
> > I'm having problems upgrading larger packages (vlc, mplayer) from
> > freshrpms on my dialup connection. I have no problems with smaller
> > packages. Is there some sort of timeout, where I have only so long to
> > download each package?
>
> Without reading your whole post, and not knowing your distro/version, or
> which mirror you are retrieving from:

As I said, I'm using Apt, not Yum, and only have the one line for the 
freshrpms repo in my /etc/apt/sources.list, as below.
rpm http://ayo.freshrpms.net/ fedora/linux/8/i386 freshrpms

 

82 upgraded, 5 newly installed, 0 removed and 0 not upgraded.
Need to get 193MB of archives.
After unpacking 80.8MB of additional disk space will be used.
Do you want to continue? [Y/n]
Get:1 http://ayo.freshrpms.net fedora/linux/8/i386/freshrpms amrnb 0.0.1-2.fc7 
[137kB]
Get:2 http://download.fedora.redhat.com fedora/linux/updates/8/i386/ 
mesa-libGL-devel 7.0.2-3.fc8 [460kB]
Get:3 http://ayo.freshrpms.net fedora/linux/8/i386/freshrpms libdca 
0.0.5-1.fc7 [115kB]
Get:4 http://ayo.freshrpms.net fedora/linux/8/i386/freshrpms vlc 0.8.6d-3.fc8 
[8026kB]
Err http://ayo.freshrpms.net fedora/linux/8/i386/freshrpms vlc 0.8.6d-3.fc8
  Error reading from server Remote end closed connection
Get:5 http://ayo.freshrpms.net fedora/linux/8/i386/freshrpms mplayer 
1.0-0.42.rc2.fc8 [4869kB]
Get:6 http://download.fedora.redhat.com fedora/linux/updates/8/i386/ 
mesa-libGL 7.0.2-3.fc8 [11.2MB]
Err http://ayo.freshrpms.net fedora/linux/8/i386/freshrpms mplayer 
1.0-0.42.rc2.fc8
  Error reading from server Remote end closed connection
Get:7 http://ayo.freshrpms.net fedora/linux/8/i386/freshrpms x264 
0.0.0-0.5.20080213.fc8 [462kB]
Get:8 http://download.fedora.redhat.com fedora/linux/updates/8/i386/ 
libdvdread 0.9.7-4.fc8 [67.5kB]

As you can see, the smaller freshrpms packages downloaded ok, but the problem 
is with vlc (8026kB), then with mplayer (4869kB). All the fedora updates are 
eventually downloaded, which just leaves the partially downloaded vlc, and 
mplayer to complete the downloading stage, and which are preventing the 
apt-get dist-upgrade continuing with installing the updates.

This isn't the first time this problem has occured, and I also see it on F7.

Now this is what becomes a bit time consuming. In the case of vlc, I run 
apt-get install vlc, and get about another 10% downloaded before "Error 
reading from server Remote end closed connection". After a succession of 
apt-get install vlc, I eventually get the whole package, which is installed.

Now I have to run apt-get dist-upgrade again so that all the downloaded fedora 
updates will be installed.

So going back to the subject again. Is there some sort of timelimit for 
downloading individual packages from the freshrpms servers? A time limit that 
would not affect broadband users, as the packages are downloaded so quickly, 
but does affect dialup users (like myself), as the larger packages take so 
long to download.

Cordially.

Nigel.

> DaveT.