From owner-freebsd-ports Wed Nov 14 21:41:30 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Received: from casimir.physics.purdue.edu (casimir.physics.purdue.edu [128.210.146.111]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A6E6837B416; Wed, 14 Nov 2001 21:41:27 -0800 (PST) Received: by casimir.physics.purdue.edu (Postfix, from userid 1000) id 992A82438A; Thu, 15 Nov 2001 00:41:23 -0500 (EST) Date: Thu, 15 Nov 2001 00:41:23 -0500 From: Will Andrews To: Charlie Root Cc: ports@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: Fetching of packages Message-ID: <20011115004123.A17600@casimir.physics.purdue.edu> Reply-To: Will Andrews Mail-Followup-To: Charlie Root , ports@FreeBSD.org References: <20011115053556.AF1518FBE@xlr82xs.shacknet.nu> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20011115053556.AF1518FBE@xlr82xs.shacknet.nu> User-Agent: Mutt/1.3.23i Sender: owner-freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org [ wrong place to send it. try ports@FreeBSD.org next time. ] On Thu, Nov 15, 2001 at 03:35:56PM +1000, Charlie Root wrote: > I've found the settings in make.conf for telling fetch to use proxies, but after searching through the make.conf and what i could make out from the Mk/* tree, i couldn't find anywhere to set flags (other than proxy flags) going to fetch. > > The reason i was looking for this is as i use a dialup connection, it would be nice to be able to install something like the gnome meta port, or anything else with a lot of files, large files to fetch, and be able to send the flags -a -r to fetch so it tries to resume or restart connections that die when my isp decides to kick me off. > > I'm not sure if this is the correct person/address to contact, but since this is listed as the main ports maintainer i thaught the worst that can happen is some flames ;) > > regards, > David Trzcinski You're probably looking to set FETCH_[BEFORE,AFTER]_ARGS. -- wca To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-ports" in the body of the message