Subject: Re: What to do against "hanging" downloads?
To: Gueven Bay <gueven.bay@googlemail.com>
From: OBATA Akio <obata@lins.jp>
List: pkgsrc-users
Date: 10/31/2007 16:53:20
On Wed, 31 Oct 2007 16:34:49 +0900, Gueven Bay <gueven.bay@googlemail.co=
m> wrote:

> I am building now the guide (/usr/pkgsrc/doc/guide) and in this
> process bash is built for which patches are downloaded. The system
> tries to download from ftp.informatik.hu-berlin.de the bash32-01 to
> bash32-1x patches, but every time it is stuck at this step
>  229 Entering Extended Passive Mode (|||15323|)
> The system waits for two or three minutes then he downloads this
> little patch which takes some seconds.
>
> What can I do to avoid these "hanging" downloads, please?

Put following lines on ~/.netrc (need last blank line).
=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=
=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D
machine ftp.informatik.hu-berlin.de
macdef init
epsv4 off

=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=
=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D
First "machine" line may replaced with "default".

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