Subject: Re: bug#26811: guix does not resume download on FTP timeouts

From: Leo Famulari <[email-masked]>
Date: Sun, 7 May 2017 14:25:43 -0400

On Sun, May 07, 2017 at 09:31:59AM +0100, Sergei Trofimovich wrote:
> I have slow internet :)
> 
> It looks like ftp://tug.org has a FTP session timeout of 2 hours 11 minutes, or something like that.
> Over night I tried to build sbcl and failed. Note how download silently stopped at ~80% [1].
> 
> Would be nice if guix had a mechanism to reconnect to FTP and continue download after timeout.

In the meantime, you can download the files with a resumable tool like
wget, and then use `guix download file:///path/to/file` to work around
this missing feature. Note that both the client *and* the server must
support resuming downloads for this to work.