5655 – Poor behaviour on download breakage

Bug 5655 - Poor behaviour on download breakage

Summary: Poor behaviour on download breakage

Status:	RESOLVED FIXED

Alias:	None

Product:	Portage Development
Classification:	Unclassified
Component:	Unclassified (show other bugs)
Hardware:	x86 Linux

Importance:	High major (vote)
Assignee:	Daniel Robbins (RETIRED)

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Reported:	2002-07-27 14:05 UTC by Jonathan Morton
Modified:	2011-10-30 22:18 UTC (History)
CC List:	1 user (show)

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Description Jonathan Morton 2002-07-27 14:05:33 UTC

If a download fails midway through, and wget is unable to resume it automatically 
(eg. error 503), emerge is unable to successfully continue the build of that 
package without manual intervention to delete the partial file.  Instead, it 
repeatedly downloads the file from different mirrors, but these files have .1, .2 
etc appended to them (by wget).

The fix is to use wget -c when attempting to retry the download on the other 
mirrors, or to delete the partial file before recalling wget.

Comment 1 Daniel Robbins (RETIRED) gentoo-dev

2002-07-29 21:41:42 UTC

OK, this should be fixed in Portage 2.0.22.  Thanks for the bug report :)