Bug#60414: Resume interrupted downloads of Packages.gz
Package: apt
Version: 0.3.18
Severity: wishlist
It would be really nice if dpkg would try a few times to complete
downloading the Packages.gz files, a'la wget, rather than give up after
the first timeout. My slow modem connection often needs downloads to be
coaxed in that manner, and even on nearby mirrors I have a hard time
getting a complete Packages.gz file for unstable/main. Or, barring that,
perhaps it could take in user-supplied Packages.gz files to be associated
with the particular package sites, so that one could manually coax the
download, though automatic retry and continue would be much nicer,
obviously.
-- System Information
Debian Release: woody
Architecture: i386
Kernel: Linux trikuare 2.2.13 #1 Sat Nov 20 12:44:19 EST 1999 i686
Versions of packages dpkg depends on:
ii libc6 2.1.3-7 GNU C Library: Shared libraries an
ii libncurses5 5.0-6 Shared libraries for terminal hand
ii libstdc++2.10 1:2.95.2-7 The GNU stdc++ library
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