Bug#224121: acknowledged by developer (Re: apt-setup hangs if debian-non-us is not available)
somehow i missed the feedback that it tries to connect and wait for 2 minutes. so i got nervous,
2mins is a very long time for a fast internet connection. if it does not connect within 5-10 secs
it should retry and then forget.
so it would be possible to set it more appropriate with:
acquire::http::timeout "20";
acquire::http::retries "1";
maybe you consider including such a setting in the example configuration in /doc?
and what i'm also wondering:
when apt is downloading from an apt-proxy, it just opens one thread, while a direct connect opens
two threads. why it does not do this for apt-proxy?
>
> apt uses a timeout of 120 seconds (2 minutes), which seems reasonable to me.
> Feedback is given to the user so that they know what apt is trying to do at
> that point, so it does not look as if the process is unexpectedly hung.
>
> --
> - mdz
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