Subject: Re: CVS commit: src/usr.sbin/pkg_install/lib
To: Pavel Cahyna <pavel.cahyna@st.mff.cuni.cz>
From: Hubert Feyrer <hubert@feyrer.de>
List: source-changes
Date: 04/11/2006 12:56:06 
On Tue, 11 Apr 2006, Pavel Cahyna wrote:
>> Bump ftp timeout from 10 minutes to 1 hour.
>> When installing teTeX over a dog slow VPN, this can be necessary.
>
> Does this mean that after one hour, the download will be interrupted, even
> if the ftp process is busy downloading?

Yes, given the nature of interaction between ftp(1) and pkg_add(1).
A better solution would be to adjust the timeout by the package size...


  - Hubert