Re: apt weirdness (fwd)
You'd think they'd have some provisions for retry...
Is this usefull manoj?
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Date: Mon, 15 Jun 1998 15:57:18 -0400 (EDT)
From: Brandon Mitchell <bhmit1@mail.wm.edu>
To: Jason Gunthorpe <jgg@gpu.srv.ualberta.ca>
Subject: Re: apt weirdness (fwd)
Do you follow deb-user? I only parse by subject, but I know alot of
developers don't.
Brandon
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Date: 15 Jun 1998 20:54:37 +0200
From: Martin Bialasinski <martin@internet-treff.uni-koeln.de>
To: Debian Userslist <debian-user@lists.debian.org>
Subject: Re: apt weirdness
Resent-Date: 15 Jun 1998 18:55:05 -0000
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>> "JG" == Jason Gunthorpe <jgg@gpu.srv.ualberta.ca> writes:
JG> On Sun, 14 Jun 1998, Igor Grobman wrote:
IG> > Timeout at /usr/lib/perl5/Net/FTP.pm line 334
IG> > Carp::croak('Timeout') called at /usr/lib/perl5/Net/FTP.pm line 1060
JG> I'm sure Manoj can say more, but it sounds to me like this is a perl
JG> FTP library glitch - doesn't handle timeouts well.
This is no glitch, this is a feature. The connection times out, so perl
exits. One could pack the statement in an eval, so that this case can be
handled smoothly (like exiting with some kind words).
Ciao,
Martin
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