Date: Tue, 3 Feb 2004 18:26:52 -0800 From: Kris Kennaway <kris@obsecurity.org> To: Clement Laforet <sheepkiller@cultdeadsheep.org> Cc: freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: ports/62302: SIZE in distinfos causes failure with FETCH_CMD=wget Message-ID: <20040204022652.GA12386@xor.obsecurity.org> In-Reply-To: <20040203124535.691a3c12.sheepkiller@cultdeadsheep.org> References: <1075796985.964405.22320.nullmailer@sinanica.lg2a.datamax> <401F8028.6010609@fillmore-labs.com> <20040203124535.691a3c12.sheepkiller@cultdeadsheep.org>
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On Tue, Feb 03, 2004 at 12:45:35PM +0100, Clement Laforet wrote:
> On Tue, 03 Feb 2004 12:04:08 +0100
> Oliver Eikemeier <eikemeier@fillmore-labs.com> wrote:
>=20
> [ good bye gnats followup ]
>=20
> >=20
> > - we have a reason to support other file transfer utilities (e.g. they
> > support
> > distributed downloading or special firewall protocols) and have to
> > fix this.
>=20
> IMHO, we should support different file transfer utilities. I use wget or
> curl sometimes to check fetching, or limit bandwidth. USE_SIZE should be
> supported when you use fetch, and skipped when you use wget.
> like ${CC}, use an altnertive at your own risk.
>=20
> perhaps we should add, something like this...
>=20
> .if ${FETCH_CMD:M/usr/bin/fetch} !=3D ""
> FETCH_BEFORE_ARGS+=3D $${CKSIZE:+-S $$CKSIZE}
> .endif
AFAIK, historically FETCH_CMD was added because the fetch binary moved
location at some point, and we needed to support the old and new
locations.
I don't think we've ever explicitly supported using a third party
application to download files.
Kris
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