> On Tue, Feb 16, 2010 at 3:25 PM, Paul Dufresne <[email protected]> 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. > > > > > > Using arch with a 56k modem is called masochism :) > > Seriously, I would never do that, I would just get a dvd of a linux > distribution that already contains a lot of software. > > If that doesn't make any sense.. well, curl and wget are indeed known > to behave more nicely than libfetch with crap connections.
I used Arch without internet for a while. :-) (-Sp) Xavier, I am happy to hear that someone uses a slow connection, at least we have a beta-tester for timeout-related patches. Maybe this is a good occasion to test fetchTimeout. ;-) Bye
