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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