[gentoo-dev] Just an idea for emerge on dialup

[gentoo-dev] Just an idea for emerge on dialup

[Viktor Lakics]

Dear Gentooers,

This is just a wish from my side, given that I am rather a user than a 
developer, therefore I cannot hack it, but I love gentoo. 
Often times, when you have a broken dialup connection, you end up with a 
partially downloaded file in /usr/portage/distfiles.

After getting automatically reconnected emerge does not pick up, if ithe 
connection was broken while fetching. So I have to kill it by CTRL-C, then 
trying to emerge again. Of course, the partially downloaded file will not 
have the correct md5sum so it stops and forces me to redownload the whole 
file. I noticed that emerge uses wget to fetch the files, wget -c would 
continue a partially downloaded file without any problem.  Is it possible to 
correct this behaviour of emerge? Something like using wget -c, or check the 
partially downloaded file, and pick up automatically wher it was left?  This 
would be a similar way how apt acts in a situation like this, and would make 
life easier for the rest of us with dreadful 56 k...

Thanks :  Viktor  

Re: [gentoo-dev] Just an idea for emerge on dialup

[Tom von Schwerdtner]

> Dear Gentooers,
> 
 Is it possible to  correct this behaviour of
> emerge? Something like using wget -c, or check the  partially
> downloaded file, and pick up automatically wher it was left?  This 
> would be a similar way how apt acts in a situation like this, and would
> make  life easier for the rest of us with dreadful 56 k...

If you uncomment the FETCHCOMMAND line in /etc/make.conf (after you merge
prozilla), you can add the '-r' option to it (the prozilla command) and it
will automatically check for downloads to resume when started.

Speaking of prozilla, I think it nees some patches to work well with gentoo.
 I like to (like alot of people I assume) start big emerge commands before
going out or going to bed, it is _very_ irritating to do that just to
discover that prozilla came up with a 404 error or that it is waiting for a
keypress (on a failed login).  wget dosetn run into these problems (it seems
to be able to find the file that gives prozilla a 404).

HTH, 
-Tom
 
> Thanks :  Viktor  
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