RE: fetch hangs, part 2

From: Darren Pilgrim <dmp_at_bitfreak.org>
Date: Wed, 21 Jul 2004 12:47:19 -0700
> From: Andre Oppermann [mailto:andre_at_freebsd.org] 
> 
> Darren sent me a list with sites where he experiences the 
> problem and I
> have tested them with FreeBSD 5-CURRENT (yesterday's), 4.10-STABLE and
> Windows 2kSP4.  None worked.  For FreeBSD fetch waited for 
> the connection
> timeout and went to the second site to fetch the tarball 
> (successfully).
> 
> Maybe he was just not patient enough to wait for fetch to move on.

Probably not. :)

On the machine in question, 1-2 minutes is longer than the time from extract
to package for most ports.  I've since set FETCH_CMD=/usr/bin/fetch -ARrT 10
in /etc/make.conf to cycle through sites more quickly.
Received on Wed Jul 21 2004 - 17:47:32 UTC

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