On Tue, 2010-02-16 at 09:25 -0500, Paul Dufresne wrote:
Well, I have lots of errors while downloading packages with pacman, and almost never while downloading files from Shiretoko Firefox.
I have tried many mirrors, that's the same for each.
Oh... I use a 56k modem (Intel 536EP Data Fax modem).
But even while downloading in Firefox, it sometimes give me the feeling it has stopped downloading for about 40 secs... while pacman seems to give up after about 20 secs.
I did not tried yet to download with wget or curl (does pacman use one of them?).
Is there a constant I could change in the code, and rebuild it?... I did not download the code of pacman yet.
I am not a pacman developer, but I believe you can search for 'fetchTimeout' in pacman-3.3.3/lib/libalpm/dload.c and change it from 10 to whatever you want. Alternatively, you could use XferCommand in /etc/pacman.conf with wget, curl, etc. Read the man page for details. Hope this helps Jonathan