fetch hangs, part 2
Darren Pilgrim
dmp at bitfreak.org
Wed Jul 21 12:47:32 PDT 2004
> 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.
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