Date: Fri, 18 Apr 2003 10:23:32 -0400 From: taxman <taxman@acd.net> To: Kris Kennaway <kris@obsecurity.org> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: fetch starts over Message-ID: <200304181023.33018.taxman@acd.net> In-Reply-To: <20030418094151.GC96135@rot13.obsecurity.org> References: <200304172241.08776.taxman@acd.net> <20030418094151.GC96135@rot13.obsecurity.org>
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On Friday 18 April 2003 05:41 am, Kris Kennaway wrote: > On Thu, Apr 17, 2003 at 10:41:08PM -0400, taxman wrote: > > Hi all, > > > > I'm sure this is known, but it seems fixable. When trying to fetch a > > distfile, if it fails, then fetch overwrites it and starts from the > > begining. > > Heh..nice timing. cvsup your ports collection; I committed a patch > yesterday that changes fetch to retry fetches if the checksum does not > match. Thanks Kris! I haven't had a fetch fail since cvsup to test it yet but thanks a lot. I assume (without understanding the makefile :) that it tests to see if a partial file is there and will continue on if it is, instead of starting from the beginning? Tim
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