On Tue, 2010-02-16 at 09:25 -0500, Paul Dufresne wrote: > Well, I have lots of errors while downloading packages with pacman, > and almost never while downloading files from Shiretoko Firefox. > > I have tried many mirrors, that's the same for each. > > Oh... I use a 56k modem (Intel 536EP Data Fax modem). > > But even while downloading in Firefox, it sometimes give me the > feeling it has stopped downloading for about 40 secs... while pacman > seems to give up after about 20 secs. > > I did not tried yet to download with wget or curl (does pacman use one > of them?). > > Is there a constant I could change in the code, and rebuild it?... I > did not download the code of pacman yet.
I am not a pacman developer, but I believe you can search for 'fetchTimeout' in pacman-3.3.3/lib/libalpm/dload.c and change it from 10 to whatever you want. Alternatively, you could use XferCommand in /etc/pacman.conf with wget, curl, etc. Read the man page for details. Hope this helps Jonathan
