Date: Thu, 29 Jun 2006 20:02:47 -0000 From: "Christopher Hobbs" <chobbs@siloamsprings.com> To: kdk@daleco.biz Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: problems with fetch Message-ID: <20060629200247.71AB069406E@athome.siloamsprings.com>
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> What do these commands yield? > > locale root@SS002:~ 176:0# locale LANG= LC_CTYPE="C" LC_COLLATE="C" LC_TIME="C" LC_NUMERIC="C" LC_MONETARY="C" LC_MESSAGES="C" LC_ALL= > alias | grep -i fet > alias | grep -i get > env | grep -i fet > env | grep -i get These don't return anything. > file `which fetch` root@SS002:~ 181:1# file `which fetch` /usr/bin/fetch: ELF 32-bit LSB executable, Intel 80386, version 1 (FreeBSD), dynamically linked (uses shared libs), stripped > grep fetch /etc/make.conf Returns nothing. > Are you able to use the ftp client manually and d-load the files? I am unable to use fetch to download the packages over ftp, but wget works just peachy over ftp. I don't have any gui clients, but firefox seems to work without a hitch as well. > > In a pinch, there are also some workarounds. You could try "alias fetch > wget -c", which might work. Setting 'FETCH_CMD=/usr/local/bin/wget -c' > in /etc/make.conf should definitely work around this issue. > > Sorry I'm not more help. I'm currently in the process of rebuilding world to track 6 STABLE, in hopes that it will do some good. I'll give your workarounds a shot, it sure beats manually grabbing packages. Every little bit helps! cmh -- Christopher M. Hobbs Systems Technician, City of Siloam Springs chobbs@siloamsprings.com, (479).524.5136
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