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Date:      27 Mar 2002 08:49:49 +0200
From:      Maxim Sobolev <sobomax@FreeBSD.org>
To:        Alan Eldridge <alane@geeksrus.net>
Cc:        freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.org
Subject:   Re: Make Fetch resume (Is is possible to do...)
Message-ID:  <1017211272.40837.23.camel@notebook>
In-Reply-To: <20020327055042.GA63306@wwweasel.geeksrus.net>
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On Wed, 2002-03-27 at 07:50, Alan Eldridge wrote:
> On Wed, Mar 27, 2002 at 05:47:48AM +0200, Maxim Sobolev wrote:
> >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.
>=20
> To tie things together a bit, would you see this fitting in the
> mainstream bsd.port.mk, or in the proposed bsd.port.utils.mk you
> wrote of earlier (in another thread)?

The latter, I think. The tricky part is to avoid code duplication, so
that hypothetical fetch-resume uses existing fetch target to do actual
fetching.

-Maxim

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