On Mon, Jul 2, 2018 at 5:04 PM Gerald B. Cox <
gbcox@bzb.us> wrote:
Ah, you mean this. So the problem here is that there is no alternative to this here. There is casync, but it is not designed for this type of usage. Zchunk is good, but it's really dead.
Did you mean to write "Zchunk" here? Seems like it's contrary to your earlier statements. Maybe you meant a different project?
Gerald: I think the issue is that you wouldn't want to use zchunk in *actual* mission-critical operations (like transmitting air-traffic-control data). But for DNF, nothing in your system is going to misbehave if you get a few bad packets of metadata; the resulting file won't rebuild and it will need to be re-requested or fall back to the non-chunked download. In either case, I think this is safe.