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Pascal Bleser wrote:
Eberhard Moenkeberg wrote: ...
Besides all other problems, smart only sees my local repository (containing the SuSE 10.0 DVD copied to HD) but no repository on gwdg.de because of connections problems.
Yes, well, that's an issue with gwdg.de, not with smart (but that doesn't really help you) ;)
No connection problems seen at GWDG the last days. Slowness yes, errors no.
Yes, sorry, I should have meant "timeouts" ;) Smart handles that as well.
OK, I do not have problems with gwdg at all right now (besides that smart was not using my proxy and tried direct connections which are not allowed here).
I'm not 100% sure the timeout length is configurable in smart, as of now.
There are a few configuration settings that affect the file fetching algorithms in Smart, though: socket-timeout max-active-downloads
The maximum number of download retries is currently hardcoded to 30 (see MAXRETRIES in smart/fetcher.py).
BTW, you can also override the HTTP and FTP proxy in the Smart configuration: smart --option http_proxy=proxyserv:3128 install ...
Where the hell do I get this information from? I tried the FAQ and all files in the RPM containing information, but I could not find anything. So do you know a place for some documentation? I would like to play around with smart; but even a "smart config --show|grep -i proxy" did not come up with any information; so I assume not each possible configuration option is given but only the explicitly set ones.
If you want to make that option persistent, then use the following commands: smart config --set http_proxy=proxyserv:3128 smart config --set ftp_proxy=proxyserv:3128
That worked; great! Thanks BTW: Is there a way to easily migrate my apt configuration to a smart one? Andreas