[pacman-dev] [BUG] segfault when the download fails

[Aaron Griffin]

On Dec 7, 2007 8:12 AM, Xavier <shiningxc at gmail.com> wrote:
> And actually, in my example above, the mirror didn't have openoffice-fr, but
> it did have hunspell. And there were probably many other packages available
> from it, it's just that the syncing wasn't fully done yet.
>
> Though, there is also the case where the mirror is totally unavailable, and
> you want to download/install many packages. But in this case, the current
> behavior still works, it just will just be slower and print a lot of
> warnings.
> With the single mirror list file, it's also easy to temporarily disable that
> dead mirror by commenting it.

Yeah this is what I was saying. It... "works" but it's a little slow.
I guess, in actuality, it's not a huge problem, and may actually be
advantageous for a download of 20 packages where only 1 is missing on
the super-fast mirror.

So Nagy is probably right that the existing behavior (with the
"continue") is better if we assume a sorted mirror list