From owner-freebsd-ports Sat Sep 11 2:58:56 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Received: from mail.rp-plus.de (clubserv.rp-online.de [149.221.232.11]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id EE47014E7F for ; Sat, 11 Sep 1999 02:58:48 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from alex@cichlids.com) Received: from neutron.cichlids.com (as2-006.rp-plus.de [149.221.236.134]) by mail.rp-plus.de (8.9.1a/8.9.1) with ESMTP id LAA15836; Sat, 11 Sep 1999 11:58:42 +0200 (METDST) Received: from cichlids.cichlids.com (cichlids.cichlids.com [192.168.0.10]) by neutron.cichlids.com (8.9.3/8.9.1) with ESMTP id LAA81386; Sat, 11 Sep 1999 11:30:08 +0200 (CEST) Received: (from alex@localhost) by cichlids.cichlids.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) id LAA00838; Sat, 11 Sep 1999 11:31:46 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from alex) Date: Sat, 11 Sep 1999 11:31:45 +0200 From: Alexander Langer To: Bill Fenner Cc: ports@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Refetch for bsd.port.mk on checksum errors Message-ID: <19990911113145.A539@cichlids.cichlids.com> Mail-Followup-To: Bill Fenner , ports@freebsd.org References: <199909101618.JAA26093@windsor.research.att.com> <19990910185215.A36627@cichlids.cichlids.com> <199909101810.LAA29440@windsor.research.att.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 1.0pre2i In-Reply-To: <199909101810.LAA29440@windsor.research.att.com> X-PGP-Fingerprint: 44 28 CA 4C 46 5B D3 A8 A8 E3 BA F3 4E 60 7D 7F Sender: owner-freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Thus spake Bill Fenner (fenner@research.att.com): > you type "make", it will fetch the file completely twice, and future > times it will refetch it, even if the fetches completely succeed. > All of these extra fetches are a waste of time and bandwidth. I would fetch the distfile again, too, if there is a checksum mismatch. Ideas against double-fetching? Alex To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-ports" in the body of the message