Package: debmirror Version: 1:2.4.5 Severity: wishlist My Internet connection is quite slow in modern terms (1Mbit/s on a good day) and not enormously reliable. I keep a local mirror because it normally allows me to be more efficient during the working day, and debmirror is very useful for that.
However, often enough to be annoying, my connection drops for one reason or another in the middle of a local mirror run. This is (for natural statistical reasons) often in the middle of a large file. When downloading over HTTP, debmirror does not restart interrupted downloads. At present, my mirror is trying to re-download the 400MB python-pyside-dbg package from the start, despite the fact that it already managed to download nearly half of it in the previous interrupted run. This is of course rather frustrating. Goswin tells me that the rsync method may be better, and I'll give it a go, but I don't see why it would be infeasible to restart HTTP downloads as well even if doing the necessary checks is a bit more fiddly. I've seen #405798, but supporting restarts seems more general than specifically doing so using wget. Thanks, -- Colin Watson [[email protected]] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected]
