Ubuntu
synaptic package

package download not re-started

Bug #29332 reported by James Stansell
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synaptic (Ubuntu)
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Bug Description

When synaptic is downloading a package and loses the connection it doesn't try to re-establish it.

I'm on a dial-up connection, so it's not unusual for the remote server to close the connection when I'm downloading large packages. I see this especially with wine from the wine.sf.net/apt repository.

Rather than having to manually restart the download, I would like synaptic to be able to do it.

I suppose that synaptic is mostly using the apt-get command for downloading, so I searched the bug lists for both apt and synaptic before filing this bug. I went ahead and filed it with synaptic because that's where the problem is visible to me.

Thanks!

-james.

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James Stansell (jamesstansell) wrote :

The error message:

W: Failed to fetch http://wine.sourceforge.net/apt/binary/wine_0.9.6-winehq-1_i386.deb
  Error reading from server. Remote end closed connection

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Michael Vogt (mvo) wrote :

You will have to hit the "Apply" button again after a failure and synaptic will restart at the point where it had stopped the download. A automatic retry is currently not implemented.

Changed in synaptic:
status: Unconfirmed → Confirmed
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Adam Niedling (krychek) wrote :

Last comment is 2 years old and still there is no automatic retry. Maybe developers don't think this is a good idea? If so this bug should be closed.

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