Re: [rock-user] Download script can't handle interruptions?

Hi,

On: Sat, 13 Mar 2004 14:19:21 -0000,
    "Anastasios" <[email protected]> wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I'm brand new to this, checked out the 2.0 "Trunk", and tried to go through
> a minimal configuration/download/build cycle. My router sucks big time,
> meaning I usually get dozens of 1-sec or multi-sec temporary losses of
> Internet connectivity. It looks like my overnight download session has left
> a complete mess, certainly trying to build showed lots of missing source
> files, while re-running the Download scripts produces all sorts of
> interesting phenomena which I will get to know and love/hate. Obviously the
> script is blacklisting URLs that are requested during any of my shortages,
> but this doesn't seem to be the only problem. Also trying to resume an
> individual file seems to fail (I manually interfered with the very first
> archive it tries to download, "kernel-headers" if I'm not mistaken). Call me
> spoilt, but Debian's apt-get has the virtue of finishing interrupted
> multi-downloads if you call it enough times (I guess your improvement here
> is the auto-detection scripts). Am I supposed to read the fine manual to
> make Rock's scripts behave like apt or some major rewrites of the Download
> code are in order?
> Thanks,

The Download script does also continue inerrupted downloads - you just
need to remove the src/Download-Errors. I do not know why we still
have it - maybe we can drop the "historic relict" (?) for the future?

Yours sincerely,
  René Rebe
    - ROCK Linux stable release maintainer

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