[indiana-discuss] Preview 2 pkg install problems when using Comcast, anyone?

[Bob Coles]

Marty Duey wrote:
> On 7/14/2008 2:10 PM, Bob Coles wrote:
>> I can't update ANY packages greater than 50 megabytes through Comcast, 
>> they now shutdown all my larger transfers when I use package manager. 
>> My linux distributions don't have this problem, unless I'm downloading 
>> gigabytes for an entire distribution.
>>
>> Does anyone know alternate repositories than opensolaris.org so those 
>> of us stuck on Comcast can update our system. Hopefully, these other 
>> repositories won't be blocked for a while.
>> Thanks.
>> -- 
>>
> Hi Bob,
> 
> I'm on Comcast as well, but haven't experienced any data transfer 
> limitations.  Just updated my system to build 91 a week or so ago which 
> was required a transfer of over 600MB as I recall.  But, I haven't tried 
> any large transfers from the opensolaris repo since then so perhaps 
> things have changed?
> 
> Marty

Marty,
I find the Comcast limits being quite arbitrary and depend on how much 
other stuff you have downloaded lately, and what perhaps where your 
location is. It also usually clears up to some extent after a while. I 
tried about 5 times to upgrade and failed after varying amounts were 
downloaded. Another thing that surprised me was that it appeared that 
the package manager deleted the files (when using IPS) when the download 
failed, so I had to download the same files again  over and over again. 
This may not actually be true, but the package manager always specified 
the exact same number of megabytes of files to be downloaded, even 
though I had a partial download previously. Now maybe IPS doesn't adjust 
the total for what you have already downloaded and  they still exist on 
my system, but I don't know where they are stored and it seems like it 
is starting over from scratch each time.