Bug#651413: Double slash in wget request

[lsorense@csclub.uwaterloo.ca (Lennart Sorensen)]

On Thu, Dec 08, 2011 at 04:06:07PM -0400, Joey Hess wrote:
> This could be fixed by running wget, checking its exit status, and
> displaying a network error message, and only then parsing the Release file
> (probably in C code) and displaying the current message.

That would certainly make it a lot less confusing.

I also keep hearing complaints about not having ping in the installer
for checking network connectivity when things aren't working. :)

But that would add a whole bunch of bytes to the installer size.

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Len Sorensen