On Mon, Dec 31, 2001 at 11:59:35AM -0800, Osamu Aoki wrote: > On Mon, Dec 31, 2001 at 01:19:07PM +0200, Serafim Zanikolas wrote: > > I've noticed that apt-get doesn't anymore resume a partially > > downloaded package, it prefers to fetch the whole one. Any hints? > > > > BTW I'm running an up-to-date testing system with apt 0.5.4 > > Which file transfer mode did you use and are you using? > FTP vs. HTTP > > FTP can resume partialy downloaded file transfer. > > HTTP can not resume partialy downloaded file but faster and easy on IP > masquerading.
I don't know about the masquerading part but apt-get can certainly resume an interupted download using HTTP. Brian.
