according to puf's syntax, you should put the URI at the END of the command.
On Sat, Dec 19, 2009 at 10:08 PM, Ronan Mainbourg <ronan.mainbo...@gmail.com> wrote: > Sorry, I should have given more details on why I am trying to do that: > > the Internet connection I use at work is handled by a router which do > automatic load-balancing between two different connections. > So when bandwidth usage of the first connection is saturated, all new > connections are routed to the second one. > Although bandwidth of those two connections (1024kb/s + 512 kb/s) are > limited and shared with other colleagues, in general I see some good dl > speed improvements using tools that can do parallel fetch, that's why I'm > trying to make portage act this way. > Paul: > I tried your modified FETCHCOMMAND, but without success :( > My configuration only allows me to run emerge as root (most of the time I > use sudo). > The only thing I get trying to emerge media-libs/libdvbpsi is this log > (maybe I can activate a more verbose one, but I don't know how?) : > >>>> Emerging (1 of 1) media-libs/libdvbpsi-0.1.6 >>>> Downloading >>>> 'http://mirror.ovh.net/gentoo-distfiles/distfiles/libdvbpsi5-0.1.6.tar.bz2' >>>> Downloading >>>> 'http://download.videolan.org/pub/libdvbpsi/0.1.6/libdvbpsi5-0.1.6.tar.bz2' > !!! Couldn't download 'libdvbpsi5-0.1.6.tar.bz2'. Aborting. > * Fetch failed for 'media-libs/libdvbpsi-0.1.6', Log file: > * '/var/tmp/portage/media-libs/libdvbpsi-0.1.6/temp/build.log' > >>>> Failed to emerge media-libs/libdvbpsi-0.1.6, Log file: > >>>> '/var/tmp/portage/media-libs/libdvbpsi-0.1.6/temp/build.log' > > > And in the build.log: >>>> Downloading >>>> 'http://mirror.ovh.net/gentoo-distfiles/distfiles/libdvbpsi5-0.1.6.tar.bz2' >>>> Downloading >>>> 'http://download.videolan.org/pub/libdvbpsi/0.1.6/libdvbpsi5-0.1.6.tar.bz2' > !!! Couldn't download 'libdvbpsi5-0.1.6.tar.bz2'. Aborting. > > > Download work great when I type directly: > > puf http://download.videolan.org/pub/libdvbpsi/0.1.6/libdvbpsi5-0.1.6.tar.bz2' > > Any help please ? > 2009/12/19 Marcus Wanner <marc...@cox.net> >> >> On 12/18/2009 1:38 PM, Nikos Chantziaras wrote: >>> >>> On 12/18/2009 05:40 PM, Ronan Mainbourg wrote: >>>> >>>> Because my Internet connection is not very fast, I'd like to make >>>> portage fetch files using net-misc/puf (wich can dl several chunks of a >>>> file at the same time) instead of wget. >>> >>> You got it backwards. Downloading more than one chunk at the same time >>> is only useful on *fast* connections, not *slow* ones. >> >> I hate to say it but he is correct...puf won't do you any good unless the >> speed at which to file is being downloaded is less than the maximum speed >> for your net connection :( >> >> Marcus >> > > > > -- > Ronan Mainbourg > ronan.mainbo...@gmail.com > > -- Best Regards, David Shen http://twitter.com/davidshen84/ http://meme.yahoo.com/davidshen84/
