Re: pkgsrc: distfile fetching issues on a slow connection

["OBATA Akio" <obache%netbsd.org@localhost>]

Hi,

On Sun, 27 Nov 2011 19:47:24 +0900, Dmitry Matveev 
<me%dmitrymatveev.co.uk@localhost> wrote:

> Hello,
>
> I have noticed that when I am using a slow 3g Internet connection, some
> heavy distfiles are re-downloaded for many times during the standard
> "make install clean" procedure. The server could just terminate a
> connection, but looks like it is not my case: according to the logs,
> file is fetched completely.
>
> A sample log:
>
>      150 Opening BINARY mode data connection for
> 'qt-everywhere-opensource-src-4.7.4.tar.gz' (220388303 bytes).
>      100%
> |***************************************************************|   210
> MiB   52.95 KiB/s    00:00 ETA
>
>      421 Service not available, remote server timed out. Connection
> closed.
>      220388303 bytes received in  1:08:43 (52.18 KiB/s)
>      ftp: No control connection for command
>      fetch: Unable to fetch expected file
> qt-everywhere-opensource-src-4.7.4.tar.gz
>
> And then it repeats.
>
> What does the script await from the server after fetching and why it
> restarts the downloading even if the file has been fetched completely?

PKG_RESUME_TRANSFERS=YES should help you.

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