Danny Milosavljevic <dannym@scratchpost.org> skribis:
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> By now, guix reconfigure has tried to download the same texlive binary from hydra at least 5 times to the same machine, unsuccessfully breaking after about 1 GB each, for a total of 5 GB, always starting from the beginning.>> Would it be possible to just resume?
There does not seem to be an easy way to achieve this.
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> Additionally, it doesn't seem like it checks the Content-Length in order to find out whether the connection broke before the file was done. Why doesn't it?
For archives (the /nar/foo URLs), there is currently no ‘Content-Length’header at all (this is because Hydra, the software, generates thosefiles on the fly; we should tweak nginx to add a ‘Content-Length’header, but this seems to require an external nginx plugin.)
However, the {mirror.,}hydra.gnu.org use chunked encoding, indeed, whichallows the HTTP client to detect truncated transfers.
Ludo’.