Comment 5 for bug 268261

So presumably this is a very simple diff, to add a timeout to curl connections:

=== modified file 'smart/fetcher.py'
--- smart/fetcher.py 2008-11-16 00:56:23 +0000
+++ smart/fetcher.py 2008-11-24 15:46:32 +0000
@@ -1649,6 +1649,7 @@

                         handle.setopt(pycurl.URL, str(url))
                         handle.setopt(pycurl.OPT_FILETIME, 1)
+ handle.setopt(pycurl.TIMEOUT, 600)
                         handle.setopt(pycurl.NOPROGRESS, 0)
                         handle.setopt(pycurl.PROGRESSFUNCTION, progress)
                         handle.setopt(pycurl.WRITEDATA, local)

But! It is also very hard to test. Gustavo, what do you think?