[Bug 145023] Re: Should be able to temporarily halt downloads with Distribution Upgrade

[Matthew Paul Thomas]

** This bug is no longer a duplicate of bug 49126
   Wishlist items for major release upgrades

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Title:
  Should be able to temporarily halt downloads with Distribution Upgrade

Status in “update-manager” package in Ubuntu:
  Confirmed

Bug description:
  Binary package hint: update-manager

  With the current update-manager in Ubuntu Feisty, during a
  distribution upgrade (to Gutsy), the user is told that he cannot pause
  the download. This is a problem, because the download with a 56k modem
  takes over 2 days!

  It is, actually, quite possible to pause the downloading by forcibly
  killing the application. When the distribution upgrade is run again,
  the downloads will pick up where they were left off. However, this is
  certainly not a tidy way to break up downloading!

  The program should offer an interface for pausing the download phase
  of upgrading so that the computer can be turned off and the download
  resumed at a later time.

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