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- Subject: Re: tazpkg and incomplete package downloads
- From: "Russell Dickenson" <russelldickenson@xxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Tue, 1 Jul 2008 07:50:47 +1000
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On Sat, Jun 28, 2008 at 5:13 AM, Christophe Lincoln <pankso@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
>> I recently ran tazpkg for the first time to download and install a
>> package and its dependencies. One of its dependencies was quite large
>> and as I'm on dial-up Internet access, I cancelled the download with
>> [Control] & [C]. When I restarted the download, tazpkg attempted to
>> install the partially downloaded package. Of course this failed and I
>> understood why, since I'd manually canceled the download.
>>
>> I wonder if I have this correct and if so, what might be done to fix
>> this behaviour? I have looked briefly at tazpkg's code and believe
>> that an additional check needs to be made before the package is
>> installed. What I don't understand is why wget is not leaving
>> incomplete package downloads with the ".part" extension. If it did,
>> it would be quite simple to detect incomplete packages (without using
>> MD5 sums) and deal with them promptly.
>
> Yes you right it seems that we need to do an additional check. SliTaz
> wget version is from Busybox, the -c option continue retrieval of
> aborted transfer, we should use it.
>
> Feel free to post a patch or/and a bug on the new BTS:
> http://wiki.slitaz.org/doku.php?id=bts:bts
Thanks for your reply. I'll certainly report this as a bug in the new BTS.
Congratulations on the wiki and BTS. Having a BTS means that bugs
that may be of interest to others are not "lost" in the mailing list.
Congratulations on SliTaz.
Regards,
Russell Dickenson (AKA phayz)
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