From owner-freebsd-ports Wed Jul 9 19:20:12 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id TAA29890 for ports-outgoing; Wed, 9 Jul 1997 19:20:12 -0700 (PDT) Received: from fallout.campusview.indiana.edu (fallout.campusview.indiana.edu [149.159.1.1]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id TAA29885 for ; Wed, 9 Jul 1997 19:20:06 -0700 (PDT) Received: from localhost (jfieber@localhost) by fallout.campusview.indiana.edu (8.8.5/8.8.5) with SMTP id VAA11490; Wed, 9 Jul 1997 21:19:59 -0500 (EST) Date: Wed, 9 Jul 1997 21:19:59 -0500 (EST) From: John Fieber Reply-To: John Fieber To: Satoshi Asami cc: ports@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: multiple distfiles In-Reply-To: <199707100209.TAA16259@silvia.HIP.Berkeley.EDU> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-ports@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk On Wed, 9 Jul 1997, Satoshi Asami wrote: > * Somewhat related, if the authoratative source for a set of files > * does not offer them in any archived format, is there a preferred > * way of dealing with this? > > You mean you need to fetch them one by one? Well, that depends on a > couple other factors (number of files, whether they are using wu-ftpd, > etc.).... One case is the HTML DTDs from W3C. Versions 0 through 2 are available as a tar file, but wilbur (3.2) and cougar are only available as separate file--about 4 each. Furthermore, they are available only via ftp as far as I can tell. On the bright side, I've been in contact with the powers that be and they are considering offering them neatly packaged up. In another case, even if wu-ftpd was an option, grabbing the directory would be like using a drag-net, catching every living thing from the ocean just to get a couple small files. :( -john