From owner-freebsd-ports Tue Oct 14 23:47:17 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) id XAA22775 for ports-outgoing; Tue, 14 Oct 1997 23:47:17 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-ports) Received: from hydrogen.nike.efn.org (resnet.uoregon.edu [128.223.170.28]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id XAA22751; Tue, 14 Oct 1997 23:47:01 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from gurney_j@efn.org) Received: (from jmg@localhost) by hydrogen.nike.efn.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) id XAA12236; Tue, 14 Oct 1997 23:46:30 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <19971014234629.61023@hydrogen.nike.efn.org> Date: Tue, 14 Oct 1997 23:46:29 -0700 From: John-Mark Gurney To: Andreas Klemm Cc: committers@FreeBSD.ORG, ports@FreeBSD.ORG, ports-jp@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: 8 days until 2.2.5... Administrative notices. References: <19971013225014.30732@jraynard.demon.co.uk> <199710140908.CAA06359@silvia.HIP.Berkeley.EDU> <19971015000853.28485@klemm.gtn.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.69 In-Reply-To: <19971015000853.28485@klemm.gtn.com>; from Andreas Klemm on Wed, Oct 15, 1997 at 12:08:53AM +0200 Reply-To: John-Mark Gurney Organization: Cu Networking X-Operating-System: FreeBSD 2.2.1-RELEASE i386 X-PGP-Fingerprint: B7 EC EF F8 AE ED A7 31 96 7A 22 B3 D8 56 36 F4 X-Files: The truth is out there X-URL: http://resnet.uoregon.edu/~gurney_j/ Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-MIME-Autoconverted: from quoted-printable to 8bit by hub.freebsd.org id XAA22756 Sender: owner-freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk Andreas Klemm scribbled this message on Oct 15: > On Tue, Oct 14, 1997 at 02:08:57AM -0700, Satoshi Asami wrote: > > * On Mon, Oct 13, 1997 at 03:56:57AM -0700, Satoshi Asami wrote: > > * I know this is probably too late for 2.2.5, but I thought it might be > > * worth mentioning anyway. What do people think to putting the size of > > * the tarball somewhere in the skeleton for each port? This would be > > * very helpful for people with poor Internet connectivity. Quite a few > > * times I've thought about installing a port, but wasn't sure how long > > * a download I was letting myself in for. Currently, the only way this > > * can be done is by looking on the master site. > > > > Hmm. That is an interesting idea. > > Another thing is, that it would be fine, if fetch would show > more infos about the download progress. Percent of downloaded > data, performance (K/sec), estimated time remaining. > > When downloading large files it would be extremely useful. I thought it already did this?? Script started on Tue Oct 14 23:40:00 1997 $ uname -a FreeBSD boron.nike.efn.org 3.0-CURRENT FreeBSD 3.0-CURRENT #12: Tue Oct 14 21:31:58 PDT 1997 jmg@hydrogen.nike.efn.org:/a/home/johng/FreeBSD-checkout/cam/src/sys/compile/boron i386 $ fetch ftp://ftp.cdrom.com/ls-lR.gz Receiving ls-lR.gz (8548027 bytes) Receiving ls-lR.gz (8548027 bytes): 0% Receiving ls-lR.gz (8548027 bytes): 0% Receiving ls-lR.gz (8548027 bytes): 0% Receiving ls-lR.gz (8548027 bytes): 0% Receiving ls-lR.gz (8548027 bytes): 0% Receiving ls-lR.gz (8548027 bytes): 0% Receiving ls-lR.gz (8548027 bytes): 1% Receiving ls-lR.gz (8548027 bytes): 1% Receiving ls-lR.gz (8548027 bytes): 1% Receiving ls-lR.gz (8548027 bytes): 1%^C fetch: parsing URI: interrupted by signal: int $ ^D Script done on Tue Oct 14 23:41:27 1997 sorry for the long line... :) -- John-Mark Gurney Modem/FAX: +1 541 683 6954 Cu Networking Live in Peace, destroy Micro$oft, support free software, run FreeBSD