On Wed, 12 Feb 2003 12:21:34 -0600 Tom Brinkman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On Wednesday February 12 2003 09:30 am, et wrote: > > I think urpmi uses either wget or curl, and one supports resume and > > one does not as default, and urpmi defaults to the one that does > > not support resume, or something like that > > Default is wget, unless curl is installed. 9.1b3 installs curl, so > that's what urpmi will use. I tend to like curl better, but it seems > wget is often more bulletproof. So, if curl is installed, > > urpmi.update -a --wget && urpmi --auto-select --wget > > Will make urpmi use wget. From the man page, > > "Wget has been designed for robustness over slow or unstable > network connections; if a download fails due to a network problem, it > will keep retrying until the whole file has been retrieved. If the > server supports regetting, it will instruct the server to continue > the download from where it left off." > > OTOH, it seems curl needs a switch to support resumes, > > -C/--continue-at <offset> > "Continue/Resume a previous file transfer at the given > offset. The given offset is the exact number of bytes that > will be skipped counted from the beginning of the source file before > it is transfered to the destination. If used with uploads, the ftp > server command SIZE will not be used by curl." > > Thanks for jarring my brain Ed. I didn't think to look at these > man pages. It appears that --wget is a better option with problem > connections. Then urpmi should resume, even after a re-connect. > > I've been usin 'cook' > (alias cook='urpmi.update -a --wget && urpmi --auto-select') as I got > tired of hdlist retrieval failures due to "too many users" and such > errors. --wget just keeps hammerin away till they finally let me in. > So currently I'm usin wget to update sources, but curl to get the > updates ;) > > -- > Tom Brinkman Corpus Christi, Texas > > Thanks for that info, Tom, I'll check my system. I dont think that i have curl installed... (ok whereis curl returned nothing unless it's part of libcurl which IS installed .... locate curl gave /usr/lib/libcurl.so.2 and /usr/lib/libcurl.so.2.0.2 along with other regex matches....) but perhaps i don't have wget installed/configured correctly. I'll check on that :) Jerry -- -- Registered Linux user # 300600 Registered Linux machine # 185855 at http://counter.li.org (¬_ //\ V_/_
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