Slackpkg+: One repository fails, they all fail
 

I ran into a problem today that I have seen several times. I was trying to update my system. I knew that AlienBob had updated libreoffice. Right now, the official slackpkg+ website is not responding. I ran "slackpkg update" followed by "slackpkg upgrade-all". It found no updates while giving the warning that the slackpkgplus repository had failed. If I edited that repository out of slackpkgplus.conf, and then reran those two commands, it found the libreoffice update.

Basically, slackpkgplus needs to handle missing/down repositories more gracefully than it currently does. I'd file a bug, but with the website down, I have no idea where to do that.

I had to do the same :(

Just comment out the line and upgrade slackpkg+ manually... if you need to upgrade it in the first place.

Hello,

You can pass options to wget with the variable WGETOPTS. For instance if you want wget to retry failed download only 1 time, and a timeout of 10 seconds, run slackpkg as below :

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SeB

Hi phenixia2003,

First of all, a big thank you to zerouno and you for this excellent tool :)

The problem is not how many retries a failed download gets, but when one repo is down (like it happened with the slackpkg+ repo) then all others fail as well.

dunno if it's the proper place, but as the code is published on github, maybe you can try its issue tracker...

Hello,

Yes, sorry. In this case, with checkgpg turned off, the other repositories should work. So the next time you can try this :


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SeB

I'll try that next time. Thanks! Is there a way that Slackpkg+ itself can be changed to handle this situation more gracefully?

And thanks again for the great tool. It makes maintaining a Slackware installation much, much easier.

Hello,

Here is a better solution for this issue.

Greetings.

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SeB

bug fixed!

as phenixia2003 tell, the best is to report it on that thread

Excellent! Thanks for the great utility!