On Alex's suggestion I manually altered the fink config file to include
DownloadMethod: wget
This works like a rocket compared to my semi-stalled curl. Of course
I first had to install wget in order for fink to use this method.
Thanks Alex.
- Mike D-S
On 16/12/2007, at 2:55 PM, Alexander Hansen wrote:
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> Mike Dyall-Smith wrote:
>> I noticed the problem mentioned on the beginners list, and I seem to
>> have hit the same
>> one trying to download tarballs via fink curl. The always time out
>> given the 30 second
>> limit. If I manually issue the same command but increase it to 70
>> seconds, they can
>> be downloaded. Is there anyway to change the script for curl to
>> increase the timeout
>> limit to 70 seconds? Otherwise, I am having to download them all
>> individually.
>> - Mike Dyall-Smith
>>
>> example:
>>
>> curl --connect-timeout 30 -f -L -A 'fink/0.27.9' -O
> http://distfiles.master.finkmirrors.net/glew-1.3.5-src.zip
>>
>> curl: (6) name lookup timed out
>> ### execution of curl failed, exit code 6
>> Downloading the file "glew-1.3.5-src.zip" failed.
>>
> I've had the same problem from some sites, too. I have set
> DownloadMethod: wget , since wget doesn't seem to have those issues.
> That's a workaround, but I think fink's curl timeout could be
> increased.
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