apt-mirror by default uses a retry setting of "-t 0" meaning infinite retries

[Salimane Adjao Moustapha]

Binary package hint: apt-mirror

apt-mirror by default uses a retry setting of "-t 0" meaning infinite retries, it will keep trying when it hits the non working IP. For some reason this IP does not supply a fatal error that makes wget stop retrying. To avoid this I edited apt-mirror the following way:

old:
exec 'wget', '-t', '0', '-r', '-N', '-l', 'inf', '-o', get_variable("var_path") . "/$stage-log.$i", '-i', get_variable("var_path") . "/$stage-urls.$i";

new:
exec 'wget', '-t', '5', '-r', '-N', '-l', 'inf', '-o', get_variable("var_path") . "/$stage-log.$i", '-i', get_variable("var_path") . "/$stage-urls.$i";

But i don't think it's the best solution. there should be a way to notify the user of the bad links or unreachable ips, blocked ips, bad dns....

[Brandon Holtsclaw (imbrandon)]

this has been fixed upstream in the 0.4.8 release and will be backported