From owner-freebsd-hackers Tue Aug 18 00:21:18 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id AAA11315 for freebsd-hackers-outgoing; Tue, 18 Aug 1998 00:21:18 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from rnocserv.urc.ac.ru (rnocserv.urc.ac.ru [193.233.85.48]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id AAA11281 for ; Tue, 18 Aug 1998 00:20:24 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from joy@urc.ac.ru) Received: from urc.ac.ru (y.urc.ac.ru [193.233.85.37]) by rnocserv.urc.ac.ru (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id NAA21987 for ; Tue, 18 Aug 1998 13:19:25 +0600 (ESS) (envelope-from joy@urc.ac.ru) Message-ID: <35D92AFD.E4985460@urc.ac.ru> Date: Tue, 18 Aug 1998 13:19:25 +0600 From: Konstantin Chuguev Organization: Southern Ural Regional Center of FREEnet X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.5b1 [en] (X11; I; FreeBSD 3.0-CURRENT i386) X-Accept-Language: ru,en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Wget vs. fetch [was: Re: JDK1.1.6-jdk1.1.6.V98-8-14.tar.gz is released] References: <199808171904.DAA26315@public.bta.net.cn> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=koi8-r Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Michael Robinson wrote: > > >Finally, there is still no ftp access to the JDK (yet). Until someone > >provides me with public ftp access the release will only be available > >via http. > > I have found that the GNU "wget" program is a useful substitute for > ftp/reget when ftp is not available. It can "reget" an incomplete HTTP > download, and has a nice ftp-style download progress display. > I have the following lines in my /etc/make.conf: FETCH_CMD= /usr/local/bin/wget FETCH_BEFORE_ARGS= -nd -t 0 IMO, wget is more handy for downloads. I'm setting the infinite number of retries because of my bad network link. The only drawback is, when one of MASTER_SITE_OVERRIDE's is down. Wget is trying to connect endlessly. -- Konstantin V. Chuguev. System administrator of Southern http://www.urc.ac.ru/~joy/ Ural Regional Center of FREEnet, mailto:joy@urc.ac.ru Chelyabinsk, Russia. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message