Michael Mansour wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> When upgrading to the latest firefox from sl-errata, I downloaded the 16Mb 
> file twice, once when it was supposed to download the .hdr only, and then 
> the second time when it's supposed to (rightly) download the file.
> 
> I've raised this issue before but no solution seems obvious. There's nothing 
> out of the ordinary with my yum setup, so I can imagine I'm not the only 
> once having this problem.
> 
> # yum -y update firefox
> Setting up Update Process
> Setting up Repos
> at-stable                 100% |=========================|  951 B    00:00
> dries                     100% |=========================|  951 B    00:00
> dag                                                             1.1 kB 00:00
> sl-contrib                                                       951 B 00:00
> sl-base                                                         1.1 kB 00:00
> sl-errata                                                        951 B 00:00
> Reading repository metadata in from local files
> at-stable : ################################################## 1498/1498
> dries     : ################################################## 1235/1235
> dag       : ################################################## 2312/2312
> sl-contrib: ################################################## 10/10
> sl-base   : ################################################## 1447/1447
> sl-errata : ################################################## 64/64
> Resolving Dependencies
> --> Populating transaction set with selected packages. Please wait.
> ---> Downloading header for firefox to pack into transaction set.
> firefox-1.0.4-1.4.1.i386. 100% |=========================|  16 MB    08:43
> ---> Package firefox.i386 0:1.0.4-1.4.1 set to be updated
> --> Running transaction check
> 
> Dependencies Resolved
> Transaction Listing:
>   Update: firefox.i386 0:1.0.4-1.4.1 - sl-errata
> Total download size: 16 M
> Downloading Packages:
> (1/1): firefox-1.0.4-1.4. 100% |=========================|  16 MB    09:04
> Running Transaction Test
> Finished Transaction Test
> Transaction Test Succeeded
> Running Transaction
> Updating: firefox 100 % done 1/2
> Completing update for firefox  - 2/2
> 
> Updated: firefox.i386 0:1.0.4-1.4.1
> Complete!
> 
> This problem only seems to affect the sl-errata repo, other repo's I've used 
> download the actual headers fine, and not down the rpm as the header and 
> then the rpm.
> 
> Obviously this wastes time and bandwidth for the provider (SL) and the users 
> (me) so should try and be solved.
> 
> Any ideas to what this problem could be?
> 
> Michael.
Hi Michael,
I have an idea that it's not able to do a 'partial' download.  I believe 
it's supposed to actually grab the rpm header from the rpm if it needs 
to, and it's supposed to be smart when doing that.  Something must be 
going wrong.  I'll do a little investigation on our end, and if I can't 
find the problem, push it up to the yum people.

Is your sl-errata doing http, ftp, or which.  Actually, can you sent the 
sl-errata repo, as well as your yum.conf.

   cat /etc/yum.conf
   cat /etc/yum.repos.d/sl-errata.repo

Thanks
Troy
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