The following packages...(too many)

[Steve]

On Sun, 20 Sep 2009 04:25:22 +0100, Jay Daniels <tux at myt60.net> wrote:

> On Sun, 2009-09-20 at 02:18 +0000, Thufir wrote:
>> My connection is rather slow and intermittent.
>>
>> When apt generates a list like:
>>
>> The following packages will be upgraded:
>>   app-install-data-partner curl dnsmasq-base finch firefox firefox-3.0
>> firefox-3.0-branding
>>   firefox-3.0-gnome-support firefox-gnome-support gnome-terminal gnome-
>> terminal-data kdelibs-data kdelibs4c2a
>>   language-pack-en language-pack-gnome-en libc6 libc6-dev libc6-i686
>> libcurl3 libcurl3-gnutls libgl1-mesa-dri
>>   libgl1-mesa-glx libglu1-mesa libgnutls26 libmono-cairo2.0-cil libmono-
>> corlib2.0-cil libmono-data-tds2.0-cil
>>   libmono-data2.0-cil libmono-getoptions2.0-cil libmono-i18n2.0-cil
>> libmono-posix2.0-cil libmono-security2.0-cil
>>   libmono-sharpzip2.84-cil libmono-sqlite2.0-cil libmono-system-data2.0-
>> cil libmono-system-web2.0-cil
>>   libmono-system2.0-cil libmono0 libmono2.0-cil libnss3-1d libopenexr6
>> libpam-modules libpam-runtime libpam0g
>>   libpurple-bin libpurple0 libssl0.9.8 libvorbis0a libvorbisenc2
>> libvorbisfile3 linux-generic linux-headers-generic
>>   linux-image-generic linux-libc-dev linux-restricted-modules-common
>> linux-restricted-modules-generic mesa-utils
>>   mono-2.0-gac mono-2.0-runtime mono-common mono-gac mono-jit mono-
>> runtime openssl pidgin pidgin-data python-gobject
>>   tzdata tzdata-java xulrunner-1.9 xulrunner-1.9-gnome-support
>> 71 packages upgraded, 4 newly installed, 2 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
>>
>>
>> why can it not iterate through the list, downloading and installing one
>> by one, rather than downloading everything at once?  Or, cache all the
>> downloads so that if the process is interrupted there's no need to start
>> redownloading from the beginning?
>>
>>
>>
>> thanks,
>>
>> Thufir
>>
>>
>
> The Gnome update manager gives you the option to download only.  But I
> have no idea where it saves the updates, anyone?
>
>
>
> jay
>
>

Don't know where update manager saves the updates but, it does.  I've had  
downloads interrupted and when restarted it doesn't download everything  
again.

-- 
Steve