Description of problem: Unlike with DNF, a network timeout aborts the whole operation in gnome-software. This can be easily seen with system upgrades, where you download lots of RPMs and timeouts occur frequently (see bug 1335414). Currently, gnome-software shows an error message like this: " Detailed errors from the package manager follow: cannot download Packages/r/rest-0.8.0-1.fc24.x86_64.rpm to /var/cache/PackageKit/24/metadata/fedora/packages/: Curl error (28): Timeout was reached for https://mirrors.fedoraproject.org/metalink?repo=fedora-24&arch=x86_64 [Operation too slow. Less than 1000 bytes/sec transferred the last 120 seconds] " and the whole operation (system upgrade) fails and you need to start it again. That means, that instead of you just pressing Download and waiting for a few hours, you need to constantly baby-sit gnome-software, check it every few minutes and confirm any error messages and start the download manually again. Otherwise, as it happened to me, you come back in a few hours later only to find out that it downloaded a few packages and then failed and sit idle for hours. Please implement automatic network retry, either a simple one (try the same server again), or a more clever one (when the server is slow, switch to a different one), same as DNF does it. (Btw, isn't it possible to share the downloader code with DNF? Isn't librepo used for this?) Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): PackageKit-1.1.1-2.fc23 libgusb-0.2.9-1.fc23 libhif-0.2.2-4.fc23 gnome-software-3.20.3-1.fc23 libappstream-glib-0.5.14-1.fc23 json-glib-1.2.0-1.fc23 How reproducible: often Steps to Reproduce: 1. either sit on a network where the timeouts occur from time to time when downloading many packages (system upgrade), or introduce the timeout yourself somehow 2. see gnome-software does not retry or switches servers (see pkmon output), just fails
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