Update one at a time w/ 'update'/'upgrade' (lemm.ee)

submitted 3 days ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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Hello,

I am using Fedora, but have a temperamental internet connection at home. Updating can be difficult because large downloads are slow and tend to reach timeouts most of the time.

Is there a way to have my system download one update from the list at a time instead of multiple?

This might at least help prevent me needing to retry upwards of 4-5 times hoping it all eventually succeeds within the timeout and failure limits it seems to have.

I did check online a bit and the manual for dnf, but web searching seems to bring up "updating a single package" not iterating through the available updates to baby my horrible internet. And the manual didn't seem to mention anything regarding this.

Hoping there is something.

Thank you very much for any suggestions or guidance.

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[-] [email protected] 9 points 3 days ago

Can't speak to Fedora specifically, but most package managers let you configure the number of concurrent download threads it will use. Most are 3-4 it seems. Finding yours and setting it to 1 will probably do exactly what you're asking.

Another option is to set it to only download the files, then install manually once they're local to you. The options for this differ (eg. when installation order matters), so an RTFM is worth the time spent.

[-] [email protected] 10 points 3 days ago

It looks like the setting is max_parallel_downloads in /etc/dnf/dnf.conf. Here's a post on how to increase it - so do the opposite, and set it to 1.

[-] [email protected] 2 points 1 day ago

Lol dang. I didn't get a message about your comment.

But, I was able to find a different article discussing the same thing.

Thank you very much for you help with this though. This seems to be exactly what I needed.

I really appreciate it.

[-] [email protected] 3 points 3 days ago

Also there's a timeout setting in the same file.

[-] [email protected] 3 points 1 day ago

Thanks! I've been able to find out about this.

I didn't see your comments before I found it though. But I really appreciate you taking the time to help me out.

Thank you very much.

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