Date: Tue, 26 Mar 2002 22:52:43 -0500 From: Alan Eldridge <alane@geeksrus.net> To: Maxim Sobolev <sobomax@FreeBSD.org> Cc: freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: Make Fetch resume (Is is possible to do...) Message-ID: <20020327035243.GA61390@wwweasel.geeksrus.net> In-Reply-To: <1017200712.260.12.camel@notebook> References: <F12HZXFZ0stgr3SU0hX00008df4@hotmail.com> <20020327023215.GA60864@wwweasel.geeksrus.net> <1017200712.260.12.camel@notebook>
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On Wed, Mar 27, 2002 at 05:47:48AM +0200, Maxim Sobolev wrote: >On Wed, 2002-03-27 at 04:32, Alan Eldridge wrote: >> Comments? Opinions: could you live with having to set a knob on your >> make command line, like "make -DRESUME_FETCH"? Committers/portmgr@, >> does this sound like a doable, and minimally invasive way to give people >> what they want? > >Well, I think that the best way out is to introduce some new target, say >fetch-resume, which will compare checksums of all files and if some of >them don't match it will try to resume download. This will ensure that >the luser knows what he is doing. Proposed `RESUME_FETCH' knob doesn't >look as a very good idea for me, because naive users will just define it >in make.conf and then have a problems each time when checksum changes >while the name of the distfile remains the same. Good point. This also eliminates the recursion problem. Thanks. Removed extraneous Cc: entries. -- AlanE "When the going gets weird, the weird turn pro." - HST To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-ports" in the body of the message
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