Bug#260348: Cannot specify that failed downloads should be automatically retried
On Tue, Jul 20, 2004 at 01:47:49PM -0400, Joey Hess wrote:
> Matt Kraai wrote:
> > After each failed download, anna asks whether I want to retry,
> > change the mirror, or cancel. Since the network connection here
> > is poor, I see this question a lot. It would be nice to have an
> > option to always retry failed downloads.
>
> The right package is probably the net-retreiver.
Sorry about that, I've reassigned it.
> Anyway, if it always
> retried, you could get into some bad loops if it just couldn't get a
> file ever. I suppose we could come up with something though, like always
> retry 3 times before asking.
That seems to match debootstrap's behavior.
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Matt Kraai kraai@ftbfs.org http://ftbfs.org/
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