On Wed, Feb 17, 2010 at 7:21 AM, Dan McGee <[email protected]> wrote: > On Wed, Feb 17, 2010 at 6:29 AM, Paul Dufresne <[email protected]> wrote: >> 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! > > I did this a while back, which is included in 3.3.1: > http://projects.archlinux.org/pacman.git/commit/?id=14a93b2e436ed19c814653c3b2b61605fd5ca156
You also removed the "TODO make this a config option" :) That'd address this issue nicely, just making the fetchTimeout variable via pacman.conf
