[sbopkg-discuss] Re: Quick question and a two feature requests...

[Robby Workman]

On Sun, 21 Sep 2008 12:35:30 -0700 (PDT)
Drew <jxa127 at verizon.net> wrote:

> 
> Chess,
> 
> Thanks for getting back to me. Here's a little more detail on the
> problem I'm having with Open Office. I just tried it again with
> version 0.11.2 on another computer:
> 
> 1) I rsync with Slackbuilds.org and then go to the menu for
> OpenOffice.
> 2) I select "build" and it starts to download the source file.
> 3) At some point later, I get an error indicating the download went
> awry: "
> 
> I need to stress that I'm having trouble downloading Open Office
> source outside of sbopkg too. It took several tries from Firefox, and
> I may actually have had to download it using a torrent. I'm reasonably
> certain the problem is with Verizon (or at least my connection).
> 
> 4) The build fails because the MD5 sum fails -- this is as it should
> be because the download did not complete.
> 
> 5) I try to build it again. And it fails again without trying to
> download the source again.
> 
> 6) Deleting the Open Office directory in the ../sbo folder has no
> effect because the incomplete source file is still in /var/cache/
> sbopkg directory.
> 
> If I delete the source file, then I can retry the process.
> 
> So what I'm talking about, I guess, is some form of error checking. If
> the source file is incomplete or corrupted, sbopkg fails to build the
> package (as it should), but does not offer a way to clear the failed
> source file and try again.
> 
> I hope this information helps. As a question/suggestion: is it
> possible to offer to delete the source file if the MD5 sum fails?


Based on what *might* be happening, perhaps make sbopkg try to download
the source with the ¨-c¨ option (resume) to wget, and then if the
checksums still don´t match, remove the source and try again.

-RW

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