emerge dirty patches for download problems

[Ralf Habacker]

Bernhard Reiter schrieb:
> Hi Kde-Windows-Hackers,
>
> here are to dirty patches that might come in handy, if
> a) the network connection to some server is down, but you have the file
>   
as you said below the problem is when incomplete files were downloaded 
in a previous session. Because wget checks the file size there is 
currently prevention in this case. Applying this patch would skip this 
wget check, so I would say that this patch should not be applied.

> b) round-robin dns from sourceforge gives you bad servers occasionally
>   
This patch I would say is required and it helps in some case from topic 
a) too.  Feel free to commit.
> A real solution for b) would be to implement general fetchting retries.
>   
patches welcome
> For a) we would need to implement a verficiation step 
> that would check a sha1sum or an OpenPGP signature on disk first before
> trying to use the network.
>   
on the server containing kde windows distributions there are currently 
md5sums available - although currently for all files of a specific 
release in one file so this area probably need to be extended.  Any 
proposals ?

Ralf