multiple curl attempts before failing

[tybl]

I have tried to upgrade bash a dozen or so times, but each time curl fails to connect to one of the many hosts required for a patch. This ultimately causes the build to fail.

I noticed that caching patches was requested before (#6795), but what about curl to only fail after multiple attempts?

[2bits]

You could change the formula so that it gets the patches from the main gnu ftp site.

  def patches
    patch_level = version.split('.').last.to_i
    {'p0' => (1..patch_level).map { |i| "http://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/bash/bash-4.2-patches/bash42-%03d" % i }}
  end

[adamv]

This behavior for readline is pretty unbearable.

[jacknagel]

This is complicated by the fact that when curling patches, we do them all in one call to curl rather than one at a time; is there an easy way to do this coupled with that?

Otherwise I would suggest we host the patches for this and bash ourselves; upstream's response to my request for a cumulative patch or tarball was "get it from the git repo".

[makmanalp]

If anyone wants to complain upstream to the GNU mirror folks, there is a mailing list link here: http://www.gnu.org/server/mirror.html

Meanwhile, temporarily, replacing with the main gnu ftp like 2bits suggested works fine.