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Date:      Tue, 3 Feb 2004 03:20:13 -0800 (PST)
From:      Oliver Eikemeier <eikemeier@fillmore-labs.com>
To:        freebsd-ports-bugs@FreeBSD.org
Subject:   Re: ports/62302: SIZE in distinfos causes failure with FETCH_CMD=wget
Message-ID:  <200402031120.i13BKDjm022176@freefall.freebsd.org>

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The following reply was made to PR ports/62302; it has been noted by GNATS.

From: Oliver Eikemeier <eikemeier@fillmore-labs.com>
To: Vasil Dimov <vd@datamax.bg.dot>
Cc: FreeBSD-gnats-submit@FreeBSD.org, freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.org
Subject: Re: ports/62302: SIZE in distinfos causes failure with FETCH_CMD=wget
Date: Tue, 03 Feb 2004 12:04:08 +0100

 Vasil Dimov wrote:
 
 > [...]
 > Existence of the SIZE line causes `-S bytes' to be passed to the fetch command
 > (according to FETCH_CMD). As it appears wget does not support this feature.
 
 You run into a similar problem if you have distfiles in /cdrom/ports/distfiles
 and do `make FETCH_CMD=wget FETCH_SYMLINK_DISTFILES=yes fetch'. The problem gets
 worse if you do `make FETCH_CMD=curl fetch'. Either:
 
 - only `fetch' is supported, and you can use FETCH_CMD only to specify a different
   path to the binary
 
 or
 
 - we have a reason to support other file transfer utilities (e.g. they support
   distributed downloading or special firewall protocols) and have to fix this.
 
 So, what do you think?



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