upgrade tool should cache downloaded files
Bug #173065 reported by
Andrew Clausen
Affects | Status | Importance | Assigned to | Milestone | |
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update-manager (Ubuntu) |
Triaged
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Wishlist
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Unassigned |
Bug Description
When you upgrade to Gutsy Gibbon over the internet, the first step is to download some upgrade program.
For some reason, the upgrade program is not obtained via apt-get, so if the download fails at any point, the whole process must be restarted.
Since I have an unreliable wireless network, I had to restart the process about 20 times, taking about 10 hours. If the upgrade process cached previous downloads, I expect it would have taken about 20 minutes instead.
One simple solution would be to package all upgrade components in .deb packages, and fetch them using apt-get.
eg: there could be a package called "gutsy-
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