Unfortunately not, the problem we have as I see it, mainly seem to
relate to curl and it's handling of satellite down here in australia, as
I mentioned below @>2>. The funny thing is that wget (puppy's standard)
doesn't have the problem. Even using the options -notimeout or even
-curl-option <and setting it impossibly longer again after 'talking' to
one of the curl people>, often just doesn't work, giving errors such as
this one:
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Finished downloading 475 bytes in 42.797 seconds (11.000 bytes/sec).
curl: (28) Operation too slow. Less than 10 bytes/sec transferred the
last 20 seconds
ERROR: CURL Returned Error 28. Please read the curl manpage.
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I suspect it's something to do with the satellite transmission data
burst method used and load on our one ipstar* satellite.
We did 'talk' about it once before when I started using T2, but nothing
conclusively worked. In the end i've been and still are using the
workaround I mentioned below, but the (minor?) change to /Download would
ease that considerably.
I don't know how hard it would be to change ./scripts/Download to use
wget either, but I admit that in my mind at least, would be the
preferable option as it can then do a continue for large files and seems
to be able to handle any type of line, even the noisy dialup 56k modem
ones down here.
sorry, but..
scsijon
On 01/07/2016 11:21 PM, René Rebe wrote:
Hi,
I did not yet look into the script how complex it would be to
integrate this.
However, is the current:
./scripts/Download -cfg <config> -required
not enough to download all you need?
René
On Jan 7, 2016, at 13:08, scsijon <[email protected]> wrote:
I was wondering if someone with scripting skills could do a minor
(or maybe not) change to this script please. That is of course if
Rene is willing to allow this to happen?
Currently it just does:
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./scripts/Download [options] [ Package(s) ] ./scripts/Download
[options] [ Desc file(s) ] ./scripts/Download [options] -repository
Repositories ./scripts/Download [options] { -all | -required }
Where [options] is an alias for: [ -cfg <config> ] [ -nock ] [
-alt-dir <AlternativeDirectory> ] [ -mirror <URL> | -check ] [
-try-questionable ] [ -notimeout ] [ -longtimeout ] [ -curl-opt
<curl-option>[:<curl-option>[:..]] ] [ -proxy <server>[:<port>] ] [
-proxy-auth <username>[:<password>] ] [ -copy ] [ -move ]
On default, this script auto-detects the best T2 SDE mirror.
Mirrors can also be a local directories in the form of
'file:///<dir>'.
./scripts/Download -mk-cksum Filename(s) ./scripts/Download [ -list
| -list-unknown | -list-missing | -list-cksums ]
---------------------------------------------------
But it can't do:
./scripts/Download -cfg <config> -list-missing
All I get is a complete list equating to a:
./scripts/Download -list-missing which gives you a list containing
ALL the missing .bz2's for ALL the /packages individual packages
and not just those you are building with!
>2>
The reason I would like this is that a lot of the time because my
connection is via satellite with long ping times and therefore very
slow transfers I need to download the files I need to update or add
separately using wget, which seems to work beautifully when curl
won't for some reason, (but I don't expect you to change over
something that works for most). I then just manually insert them in
the correct local mirror directory, and then use ./scripts/Download
to do the conversion to a T2 source package. That's my simple
workaround for the problem.
If I can do:
./scripts/Download -cfg <config> -list-missing -required
I can pipe it into a file that makes it easy to create the wget
source file to pull them from the T2 repository in one hit.
It also lets me check if I have it elsewhere before downloading
(which is expensive in Australia no matter which way you get it).
And that will make it even easier than messing with the
missing-files file to create what I need.
with many thanks
scsijon
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