On Sun, May 07, 2017 at 09:31:59AM +0100, Sergei Trofimovich wrote: > I have slow internet :) > > It looks like ftp://tug.org has a FTP session timeout of 2 hours 11 minutes, > or something like that. > Over night I tried to build sbcl and failed. Note how download silently > stopped at ~80% [1]. > > Would be nice if guix had a mechanism to reconnect to FTP and continue > download after timeout.
In the meantime, you can download the files with a resumable tool like wget, and then use `guix download file:///path/to/file` to work around this missing feature. Note that both the client *and* the server must support resuming downloads for this to work.
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