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lilsirecho

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Registered: 2003-10-24

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Pacman downloads exceeding 60MB

Recent downloads of pacman -Syu reached 388MB.

Within these downloads were many,many kde4-meta packages.

Per the news item, these are installable separately.

I recommend they be downloaded separately as an -Syu item or at least in smaller groups instead of a massive dump.  With slow download speeds, upgrading takes hours.  Can't use the computer on the net.................

Use of the --ignore pacman option did not prevent the kde4-meta download from generating errors and prevented install of all packages.

One can select from the download listings with the -meta packages and hope that they are indeed separate and independent (?).

There seems to be a conflict between pacman --ignore and the kde4-meta system of download controls.

Or am I in error because kde4-meta has to be installed all at once, initially.

It would seem logical that many of the packages could not be skipped, ignored, or rejected since the system might not display?

The way it is implemented the -Syu suggests that the whole shebang be installed, regardless of the options presented.  Then each package not desired gets removed by the user, hopefully.

Will --ignore work in the future on -meta packages?

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djszapi

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From: Cambridge, United Kingdom

Registered: 2009-06-14

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Re: Pacman downloads exceeding 60MB

Hello lilsirecho!

It would be good

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shining

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Registered: 2006-05-10

Posts: 2,043

Re: Pacman downloads exceeding 60MB

remove kde
problem solved

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theapodan

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From: Virginia, USA

Registered: 2008-10-21

Posts: 116

Re: Pacman downloads exceeding 60MB

You might try this:
pacman -Syuw

The w makes it only download the packages, not install them.  That way you can download overnight or when you aren't using the computer and then install them with pacman -Su when you can attend to the upgrade.

This doesn't really address your comments, but its an alternate solution to your problem.

Last edited by theapodan (2009-08-08 18:46:04)

lilsirecho

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Registered: 2003-10-24

Posts: 5,000

Re: Pacman downloads exceeding 60MB

Agreed to the -Syuw option.

The remaining problem is still alive............

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A man is not complete until he is married..then..he is finished.
When ALL is lost, what can be found? Even bytes get lonely for a little bit!     X-ray confirms Iam spineless!