Dave Vasilevsky <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

> 
> On Sep 12, 2005, at 8:30 AM, Alexander K. Hansen wrote:
> > The "distfiles" mirrors are guaranteed to fail for a while when new
> > sources are added to the distribution--either new versions of existing
> > packages, new packages, additional sources for docs, what have you.
> > There's a FAQ on this.
> 
> Also, because this failure is expected to happen sometimes, recent
> fink (since 0.24.8) will try only two master mirrors, instead of
> trying every last one.
> 
> When 0.25.x is released, you'll be able to put 'SkipPrompts: fetch'
> in your fink.conf, and Fink will automatically keep trying mirrors
> until it gives up, instead of waiting for your input every time a
> mirror fails.
> 
> Dave
That's excellent. Not that it has been a huge problem, but the
SkipPrompts option seems like a good option.

Thanks,

/henrik


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