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Poisonblack

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From: Mumbai, India

Registered: 2008-07-25

Posts: 46

Pacman doesn't resume download automatically after net disconnection.

Hullo there.!
My net connection is a bit fugged up, disconnecting and reconnecting itself every 10 minutes or so.This is really annoying when downloading large packages through pacman as pacman doesn't make any efforts to resume the interrupted downloaded when the connection is regained, unlike apt-get.So, I have to use ^C to stop pacman when net disconnects and then again run pacman -S <package> to resume download when connection is regained
Any way to make pacman resume broken downloads by itself rather than me having to do it.?

P.S: A noobish query, but how do I use the rankmirrors script.?

Last edited by Poisonblack (2008-07-31 07:53:22)

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tomk

Forum Fellow

From: Ireland

Registered: 2004-07-21

Posts: 9,604

Re: Pacman doesn't resume download automatically after net disconnection.

There probably is a way - the best way to have it considered for inclusion is to post a feature request in the bugtracker. If you can provide a patch for it, that would be even better. However, there is no guarantee that the pacman developers will agree with you.

shining

Pacman Developer

Registered: 2006-05-10

Posts: 2,043

Re: Pacman doesn't resume download automatically after net disconnection.

Download resume has always worked fine for me with pacman.
libdownload handles that, and wget too if you use it thought XferCommand option.

And even makepkg has that feature now for resuming source download, with the 3.2 release (in testing now, and should be in core next week).
But that wasn't the question.

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Poisonblack

Member

From: Mumbai, India

Registered: 2008-07-25

Posts: 46

Re: Pacman doesn't resume download automatically after net disconnection.

Well..Download resume doesn't work for me..What are libdownload and wget.?

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shining

Pacman Developer

Registered: 2006-05-10

Posts: 2,043

Re: Pacman doesn't resume download automatically after net disconnection.

Could you try another mirror?

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pacman roulette : pacman -S $(pacman -Slq | LANG=C sort -R | head -n $((RANDOM % 10)))

mbender

Member

Registered: 2008-07-13

Posts: 19

Re: Pacman doesn't resume download automatically after net disconnection.

Well..Download resume doesn't work for me..What are libdownload and wget.?

Maybe a look to http://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Imp … oad_speeds
can answer your question.

MetalheadGautham

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From: Bangalore, India

Registered: 2008-07-27

Posts: 143

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Re: Pacman doesn't resume download automatically after net disconnection.

I have the exact same issue. Resume does not work for me at all.

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shining

Pacman Developer

Registered: 2006-05-10

Posts: 2,043

Re: Pacman doesn't resume download automatically after net disconnection.

Again, does this happen with all mirrors you tried?

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pacman roulette : pacman -S $(pacman -Slq | LANG=C sort -R | head -n $((RANDOM % 10)))

Poisonblack

Member

From: Mumbai, India

Registered: 2008-07-25

Posts: 46

Re: Pacman doesn't resume download automatically after net disconnection.

I have five mirrors uncommented in mirrorlist.The problem still persists.Can using a download manager with resume support for pacman be a possible solutiion.?
I am using powerpill which requires aria2.Speeds are too good at the moment.!

Last edited by Poisonblack (2008-08-04 11:28:37)

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