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.
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