Peter, At 10:38 2002-11-07, Peter A. Castro wrote:
Not true. Setup goes back and re-fetches the package list and re-computes necessary downloads. So if 1 out of 100 package retrievals failed, then only that one package will be fetched on the second go-around.> > ... > > > > ... I'm a bit confused as to which problem we are addressing here now. > > > >-- > >Peter A. Castro <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> or <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > "Cats are just autistic Dogs" -- Dr. Tony Attwood > > ... > > While it's true that Setup does have a retry facility if something goes > wrong during download, it's manual: if a failure occurs during package > download, then when everything is done you get an alert stating that there > was a problem and asking if you want to retry. Then you're taken back to > the page of the wizard that downloads the package list and you pretty much > have to start over. > > Far from ideal, really.Ah, yes, I do recall seeing this. But, I wouldn't really call this a re-try facility, because if 1 out of 100 packages downloaded with errors, the "re-try" will pull all 100 packages all over again. A far cry from ideal, I'd say :) This is why I was proposing something much more realtime. Such that during the download of a package, if an error occurs, it prompts you to re-try right there any then. A further optimization would be to have a checkbox to automagicaly do a re-try up to a certain number of times.
Well, that's what shell scripts are for, right? Personally, I have a very low threshold of reuse or repetition before I dash off a script to relieve me of "manual" effort. I just hate repeating myself!> On the other hand, wget is pretty automatic and is rather persistent (and > customizably so) in its attempts to surmount failures during downloads, so > there's much to recommend it for users with links that exhibit frequent > failures. Except that they end up either having to craft the commands to pull only those package directories they really want, or pull the whole she-bang. Again, not ideal. If I get time, I'll look at Setup and see what it might take to add this "feature" (no guarantees, though).
Be sure to review Max Bowsher's recent mail about the Setup code. Apparently it (Setup's source) is in slight disarray with some ongoing enhancements in progress.
> By the way, thanks for giving the details on altering wget's naming
> behavior. I figured it could handle it--it's got so many options--but I was
> a little too lazy to go look it up.
You're welcome :)
> Randall Schulz
> Mountain View, CA USA
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