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Date:      Thu, 15 Mar 2001 15:22:14 +1100
From:      Stephen Ware <steve@inserted.net>
To:        Andrew Hesford <ajh3@chmod.ath.cx>, FreeBSD-stable <freebsd-stable@freebsd.org>
Subject:   Re: Fetch
Message-ID:  <5.0.2.1.2.20010315151913.02229988@entropy.inserted.net>
In-Reply-To: <20010314195202.A91285@cec.wustl.edu>

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At 07:52 PM 3/14/2001 -0600, Andrew Hesford wrote:
 >Fetch hangs after downloading large files when I make ports. Does
 >anybody else know of this trouble?


I had all sorts of various problems with fetch, especially with http urls. 
The env variable FETCH_CMD allows you to specify what you want to you use 
to download the distfiles, so I installed and set it to
/usr/local/bin/wget. Haven't had any problems since.
man ports for more detail.

Good luck,
Stephen
steve@inserted.net

 >It's not a major issue, I just have to kill the build process and
 >restart it after each file.
 >--
 >Andrew Hesford
 >ajh3@chmod.ath.cx

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