[tlu] First Time in a Long Time

[Bruno Voisin]

> Le 16 sept. 2019 à 15:46, Adam R. Maxwell <amaxwell at mac.com> a écrit :
> 
> l$ curl --retry 5 --connect-timeout 30  http://192.168.0.1/tlpkg/texlive.tlpdb.xz
> Warning: Transient problem: timeout Will retry in 1 seconds. 5 retries left.
> Warning: Transient problem: timeout Will retry in 2 seconds. 4 retries left.
> Warning: Transient problem: timeout Will retry in 4 seconds. 3 retries left.
> Warning: Transient problem: timeout Will retry in 8 seconds. 2 retries left.
> Warning: Transient problem: timeout Will retry in 16 seconds. 1 retries left.
> curl: (28) Connection timed out after 30003 milliseconds
> 
> [...]
> 
> $ time tlmgr -v -v update --list --repository http://192.168.0.1
> [...]
> D:downloading http://192.168.0.1/tlpkg/texlive.tlpdb.xz using curl --user-agent texlive/curl --retry 10 --fail --location --connect-timeout 30 --silent --output

Are you implying that curl waits for 2^n seconds before retry n (yielding 2047 s = 34 min in total)?

Bruno