Problem upgrading larger packages on dialup

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?

Doing an apt-get dist-upgrade, which includes the upgrading
of packages from 
freshrpms, any larger packages cause problems. I get about
10% of the 
download, then something like "connection closed from
server end". If I do an 
apt-get install vlc (for example), I often have to rerun
apt-get install vlc 
up to 12 times before I finally get the package download
completed.

Anyone have any suggestions (apart from moving to livna) as
how this might be 
resolved.

btw. I had a similar problem upgrading Wine from the
sourceforge site, mind 
you, sourceforge is a whole bundle of fun on it's own.

Nigel.

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:

set /etc/yum.conf keepcache=1
yum install yum-downloadonly
yum --downloadonly update
until it has all rpms pre-downloaded
then repeat without the --downloadonly.

This should {eventually, if you have issues} get all the
rpms your 
machine needs to complete the update.

DaveT.

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.fed
ora.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.fed
ora.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.fed
ora.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.