On Wed, Feb 17, 2010 at 6:29 AM, Paul Dufresne <dufresnep@gmail.com> wrote:
I have tested pacman recompiled with a 40 sec fetchTimeout rather than 10.
But first I began by recommenting out the XferCommand in /etc/pacman.conf, first rebuild pacman without modifications with abs to get sure the errors was there, then tried to make the modification then use abs, but realized I was changing nothing, so I rechange fetchTimeout in pacman-3.3.3/lib/libalpm/dload.c to 40 then use ./configure prefix=/usr/local, make, #make install, and then used #/usr/local/bin/pacman -Syu
I have left it all the night (about 8 hours) and only had one error getting gimp (maybe the package was really not there anymore).
That said, I may boost it to 50 secs rather than 40, because a while, I was counting manually about by 1 by 1 second when it seems stopped, and once got up to 33.
I hope you will boost the fetchTimeout value for others people using a slow connection like me.
Thank you again Jonathan for the hint!
I did this a while back, which is included in 3.3.1: http://projects.archlinux.org/pacman.git/commit/?id=14a93b2e436ed19c814653c3... It was done in some part to try and address http://bugs.archlinux.org/task/15369, so I don't want to raise this back above 10 seconds for everyone, but then again it isn't all that configurable right now. -Dan