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Dear Gentooers, |
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This is just a wish from my side, given that I am rather a user than a |
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developer, therefore I cannot hack it, but I love gentoo. |
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Often times, when you have a broken dialup connection, you end up with a |
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partially downloaded file in /usr/portage/distfiles. |
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After getting automatically reconnected emerge does not pick up, if ithe |
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connection was broken while fetching. So I have to kill it by CTRL-C, then |
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trying to emerge again. Of course, the partially downloaded file will not |
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have the correct md5sum so it stops and forces me to redownload the whole |
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file. I noticed that emerge uses wget to fetch the files, wget -c would |
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continue a partially downloaded file without any problem. Is it possible to |
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correct this behaviour of emerge? Something like using wget -c, or check the |
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partially downloaded file, and pick up automatically wher it was left? This |
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would be a similar way how apt acts in a situation like this, and would make |
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life easier for the rest of us with dreadful 56 k... |
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Thanks : Viktor |
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