I have tested pacman recompiled with a 40 sec fetchTimeout rather than 10. But first I began by recommenting out the XferCommand in /etc/pacman.conf, first rebuild pacman without modifications with abs to get sure the errors was there, then tried to make the modification then use abs, but realized I was changing nothing, so I rechange fetchTimeout in pacman-3.3.3/lib/libalpm/dload.c to 40 then use ./configure prefix=/usr/local, make, #make install, and then used #/usr/local/bin/pacman -Syu
I have left it all the night (about 8 hours) and only had one error getting gimp (maybe the package was really not there anymore). That said, I may boost it to 50 secs rather than 40, because a while, I was counting manually about by 1 by 1 second when it seems stopped, and once got up to 33. I hope you will boost the fetchTimeout value for others people using a slow connection like me. Thank you again Jonathan for the hint! 2010/2/16, Nagy Gabor <[email protected]>: >> 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 > >
