> I would like to know if you could background the
> download of packages while others are being
> installed. And bypassing those which are missing
> their md5, so not to halt an upgrade of many
> packages.

It is intentional to make sure all downloads complete successfully before installing any
packages so as to not install an incomplete set of packages that would result in broken
functionality.

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Jason Woodward
woodwardj@jaos.org