Make debootstrap re-entrant?
It can't think of any reason not to make debootstrap's downloading of debs
more friendly. I had my base install interrupted tonight and I had to wait
through all the same downloads again, although they were already there on
the disk.
I was getting an average of 22kb/sec on my DSL connection, so it only set me
back a half hour or so. For those trying to install over a modem connection,
it would be very frustrating when the connection gets interrupted to have to
restart from the beginning.
I have no experience with shell code, but this looked like it might do the
trick:
--- functions.orig Wed Oct 31 23:52:04 2001
+++ functions Thu Nov 1 00:27:30 2001
@@ -161,6 +161,7 @@
error 1 "${from#null:} was not pre-downloaded"
elif [ "${from#http://}"; != "$from" -o "${from#ftp://}"; != "$from" ]; then
# http/ftp mirror
+ if [ -e $dest ]; then return 0; fi
if wgetprogress -O "$dest" "$from"; then
return 0
elif [ -s "$dest" ]; then
I'm fairly certain that the file doesn't exist for -e until it's been fully
downloaded and closed. So I don't believe there would be any risk of ending
up with an half-completed file. The checksum could be checked, if there is.
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