On Sat, 21 Aug 1999, Levi wrote: > I have a suggestion for improving apt's FTP method. Why not, instead of > giving up on a file when there's a data socket timeout, simply resume the > file where it left off (or whatever it is that normal ftp does). I'd do it > myself, but my C++ skills are rather lacking *sigh*. Let me know what you > think. Add acquire::retries "10"; to the config file and it will, see the man page for apt.conf. Jason