Mail Archives: cygwin/2002/11/08/02:14:56
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On Fri, 2002-11-08 at 05:38, Peter A. Castro wrote:
> Ah, yes, I do recall seeing this. But, I wouldn't really call this a
> re-try facility, because if 1 out of 100 packages downloaded with errors,
> the "re-try" will pull all 100 packages all over again. A far cry from
> ideal, I'd say :) This is why I was proposing something much more
> realtime. Such that during the download of a package, if an error
> occurs, it prompts you to re-try right there any then. A further
> optimization would be to have a checkbox to automagicaly do a re-try up
> to a certain number of times.=20
Hmm, a number of things here.
1) If you have multiple mirrors chosen, setup will try all of them
before considering a fail to have occured.
2) setup only downloads again if you deselect the mirror you used last
time from your mirror list. I ususally choose 3 or 4 mirrors and then
*don't change them*.
3) Knobs with little use shouldn't exist. I'll accept a commandline
parameter to cause n retries on a single url. It should be about 10
lines of code.
=20
> > On the other hand, wget is pretty automatic and is rather persistent (a=
nd=20
> > customizably so) in its attempts to surmount failures during downloads,=
so=20
> > there's much to recommend it for users with links that exhibit frequent=
=20
> > failures.
>=20
> Except that they end up either having to craft the commands to pull only
> those package directories they really want, or pull the whole she-bang.
> Again, not idea. If I get time, I'll look at Setup and see what it might
> take to add this "feature" (no guarantees, though).
Also, note that setup will use non encoded directories, if a top level
setup.ini is created. However, setup won't put files there itself, nor
update setup.ini.
Rob
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