On Thu, May 15, 2008 at 02:39:42AM -0500, Mumia W.. wrote: > On 05/14/2008 11:42 AM, Douglas A. Tutty wrote: > >I get various errors during the update phase of aptitude. Sometimes its > >just "some files failed to download"; I guess it timed out or something. > >I'm on dialup. How to prevent absolute timeouts but allow (encourage) > >aptitude to re-issue requests. > > > >Sometimes I get gpg errors. > > > >Last time, I get "Bizarre Error: file size not what the server > >reported".
The mirrors must have been having problems or being updated; it worked late last night. This morning I finished fixing the ssh fiasco for all users on all boxes. > Perhaps you can use a slightly different procedure since your dialup is > having problems. You can use "apt-get --print-uris upgrade" to get a > list of URLs to download, and you can use wget to get the actual files. > After the files MD5 sums are checked (how?), they can be placed in > /var/cache/apt/archives. Wget can be told to retry and retry; it can > also be told to continue failed downloads. > > Think of this as untested pseudocode for the first part of the process: > mkdir /tmp/getem && ch /tmp/getem > sudo apt-get --print-uris upgrade > getem.list > wget --input-file=getem.list --tries=100 --continue Yeah, I figured I could cobble something together from wget but I don't know about the gpg problem. This latter stuff is a low-priority problem at which I'll poke as time and inclination permits. Thanks, Doug. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
