From owner-freebsd-ports Tue Mar 26 19:52:54 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Received: from wwweasel.geeksrus.net (wwweasel.geeksrus.net [64.8.210.226]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E150937B405; Tue, 26 Mar 2002 19:52:49 -0800 (PST) Received: (from alane@localhost) by wwweasel.geeksrus.net (8.11.6/8.11.6) id g2R3qhX61405; Tue, 26 Mar 2002 22:52:43 -0500 (EST) (envelope-from alane) Date: Tue, 26 Mar 2002 22:52:43 -0500 From: Alan Eldridge To: Maxim Sobolev Cc: freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: Make Fetch resume (Is is possible to do...) Message-ID: <20020327035243.GA61390@wwweasel.geeksrus.net> References: <20020327023215.GA60864@wwweasel.geeksrus.net> <1017200712.260.12.camel@notebook> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <1017200712.260.12.camel@notebook> User-Agent: Mutt/1.3.28i X-message-flag: Magic 8-Ball says "Outlook not so good." I'll ask it about Exchange next. Sender: owner-freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org 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