Re: [PATCH] bootstrap: don't ignore download_po_files failure.

[Jim Meyering]

Eric Blake wrote:
> On 05/03/2010 02:28 PM, Giuseppe Scrivano wrote:
>> I have noticed this error today while I was on a network with a silly
>> firewall that blocked rsync.  I think `bootstrap' should fail in this
>> case.
>
> Even nicer would be to have a fallback to wget that goes through http in
> the case when rsync fails.  But that can come at a later date;

Or simpler still, refer people to the section of the rsync manual
that tells how to use RSYNC_CONNECT_PROG to sidestep the firewall.