[tex-live] TeX Live 2008 testing - problems downloading
Reinhard Kotucha
reinhard.kotucha at web.de
Sun Jun 29 03:57:36 CEST 2008
Karl Berry writes:
> wgetrc still has tries=2.
>
> Obviously I don't know what you "grabbed", but I changed it to tries=4 a
> couple days ago (and that is what is in the install-tl zip/tgz).
>
> to tries=20 and had success (using Fedora 8 linux) with a minimal
> install in just one try (wish I had done that on Thursday!).
>
> Very interesting. I had expected that if something failed with a couple
> of tries, trying 20 times would simply be a useless waste of time.
But if someone succeeded to download 99% of the stuff, he is certainly
more happy with tries=$\infty$.
I do not see any good reason to divert from the default values
provided by wget. It seems that they are good.
Regards,
Reinhard
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