freebsd-questions Digest, Vol 876, Issue 9

[wa5qjh]

It tells you that continuing the download at this time is futile, go do something else. waiting , attempting to download the whole thing again, and it will even if cached and ive watched it download it all again, means you have to spend all that time waiting to see if its going to finish or not. Believe me, Its a big time and (precious) bandwidth waster! I've seen it get to 99% downloaded then declared a file size mismatch and fetch as used, doesn't employ the resume feature so whatever was downloaded last time isn't used the next even if only 2 minutes prior. partial downloads are not cached.
   I'm rather curious tho, since I'm pretty certain theres a good reason for making the big downloads at or near last, what is it? ( no, seriously, why? not being snarky here or anywhere in this message, honest! no time or patience for that!)
Gary Corell
 Ya gotta see time beyond the end of your nose

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>> On Sat, 27 Mar 2021 10:28:50 +0800
>> wa5qjh wrote:
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>> and as a user in the boonies with mostly bad internet, may I
>> request that in package scripts, larger items like llvm10 be fetched
>> very early on instead of nearly last, please! If llvm fails to fetch,
>> all that was fetched previously is wasted when you make the attempt
>> again. 
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> Why is it wasted? If you rerun "pkg upgrade" the downloaded files will
> be locally cached. 
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> Even if that weren't true, downloading the larger files first doesn't
> give you any benefit, since you have to download them all before
> pkg proceeds with installing.
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