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From: Leo Famulari <leo@famulari.name>
To: Sergei Trofimovich <slyfox@inbox.ru>
Cc: 26811@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#26811: guix does not resume download on FTP timeouts
Date: Sun, 7 May 2017 14:25:43 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20170507182543.GB6096@jasmine> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20170507093159.170a100b@sf>

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On Sun, May 07, 2017 at 09:31:59AM +0100, Sergei Trofimovich wrote:
> I have slow internet :)
> 
> It looks like ftp://tug.org has a FTP session timeout of 2 hours 11 minutes, or something like that.
> Over night I tried to build sbcl and failed. Note how download silently stopped at ~80% [1].
> 
> Would be nice if guix had a mechanism to reconnect to FTP and continue download after timeout.

In the meantime, you can download the files with a resumable tool like
wget, and then use `guix download file:///path/to/file` to work around
this missing feature. Note that both the client *and* the server must
support resuming downloads for this to work.

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  reply	other threads:[~2017-05-07 18:26 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2017-05-07  8:31 bug#26811: guix does not resume download on FTP timeouts Sergei Trofimovich
2017-05-07 18:25 ` Leo Famulari [this message]
2017-05-07 18:49   ` Sergei Trofimovich
2017-05-07 18:58     ` Leo Famulari
2017-05-08 14:27 ` Ludovic Courtès

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