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FS#16221 - [Pacman] does not have a timeout when downloading packages

Attached to Project: Pacman
Opened by Xaver Wurzenberger (Xav) - Wednesday, 16 September 2009, 21:56 GMT
Last edited by Xavier (shining) - Thursday, 17 September 2009, 11:23 GMT
Task Type Bug Report
Category Packages: Core
Status Closed
Assigned To No-one
Architecture i686
Severity Medium
Priority Normal
Reported Version
Due in Version Undecided
Due Date Undecided
Percent Complete 100%
Votes 0
Private No

Details

Description:
The package manager pacman freezes/hangs if the package download is interrupted somehow. There is no timeout function, retry or anything to resolve this situation, forcing the user to Ctrl-C/kill the process, which I guess for a package management tool is a very unclean solution.

Here, I observe this for
core/pacman 3.3.0-3 (base)
(i686 architecture,
kernel 2.6.30.5-1)
This task depends upon

Closed by  Xavier (shining)
Thursday, 17 September 2009, 11:23 GMT
Reason for closing:  Duplicate
Additional comments about closing:  dup of  FS#15369 
Comment by Xavier (shining) - Thursday, 17 September 2009, 07:04 GMT
dup of  FS#15369  ?
Comment by Xavier (shining) - Thursday, 17 September 2009, 11:22 GMT
There is no problem with ctrl+c , the signal is handled and pacman/alpm will exit cleanly.

Well this can also cause some race conditions, but this is another problem. And in case of an interrupted download, it should not.

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