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clonejo

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Registered: 2014-04-30

Posts: 1

Increase pacman's connection timeout on high-latency networks

Hi,

as I depend on a very laggy mobile connection, the 10 second timeout pacman uses for downloads has become an issue. Is there a way to increase that timeout? Reissuing the command every few minutes for a 20MB package is tedious, at least resumed downloads allow me to sync packages at all.

Regards,
clonejo

Lone_Wolf

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From: Netherlands, Europe

Registered: 2005-10-04

Posts: 11,922

Re: Increase pacman's connection timeout on high-latency networks

don't think pacman.conf has an option for that, but you could use a customized Xfer command .

-connect-timeout SECONDS   Maximum time allowed for connectiontransfer

something like this should work for you :

XferCommand = /usr/bin/curl -C - -f -connect-timeout SECONDS %u > %o

(replace SECONDS with desired value)

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(A works at time B)  && (time C > time B ) ≠  (A works at time C)