Remove the urlgrabber fork hack.

[pakfire.git] / python / pakfire / downloader.py

diff --git a/python/pakfire/downloader.py b/python/pakfire/downloader.py
index 41aa529ace7b09d8d73ad981991c6db8b82ea6ab..0b5b5b6a47f59cd8c87301c37d01a3a71330b8cc 100644 (file)
--- a/python/pakfire/downloader.py
+++ b/python/pakfire/downloader.py
@@ -74,17 +74,6 @@ class PakfireGrabber(URLGrabber):
 
                URLGrabber.__init__(self, *args, **kwargs)
 
-       def fork(self):
-               """
-                       Reset Curl object after forking a process.
-               """
-               # XXX this is a very ugly hack and fiddles around with the internals
-               # or urlgrabber. We should not touch these, but apparently nobody
-               # else uses multiple threads or processes to talk to their servers.
-               # So we simply replace Curl with a new instance without closing
-               # the old one. This should be fixed in urlgrabber and/or pycurl.
-               urlgrabber.grabber._curl_cache = pycurl.Curl()
-
        def check_offline_mode(self):
                offline = self.config.get("downloader", "offline")
                if not offline: