Improve jhbuild downloading
Posted in Hacks, Linux, Open Source, Python by sandaruwan on April 11th, 2008Yesterday, I tried to install Gnome Online Desktop. Since, this is fairly new, it has to be build from the source. Gnome Online Desktop is a complete branch of gnome desktop, which will of course have many dependencies. It’ll take years to download each and compile manually. That’s why they have jhbuild (it works like gentoo emerge).
This is April, which is supposed to be the best month of Sri Lanka with festivals/celebration. But there is a price to pay, thundering (Last year, lighting took my laptop 
). My connection goes down for each 10 minutes.
So, while jhbuild downloading a module, the connection goes down, and when I restart jhbuild, download doesn’t continue from where I left off. It downloads the whole file again. So, here is a very simple one line hack to prevent that from happening to you.
In jhbuild/versioncontrol/tarball.py, line 171, add a command line option “-c” to wget command. If you are not happy with “wget”, you can change it to whatever you want(prozilla,aget,d4x).
I’m still building online desktop (101 packages :-/ ), can’t wait to see what it can do.
