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Date:      Thu, 30 Jan 2003 19:15:49 +0300
From:      "Sergey Matveychuk" <sem@ciam.ru>
To:        "Pat Lathem" <plathem@ivestnw.net>, <ports@freebsd.org>
Subject:   Re: ports build system improvements
Message-ID:  <000901c2c87a$da7521f0$0a2da8c0@sem>
References:  <001701c2c7f3$22099970$f88b763e@semhome> <3E38ADEA.8020306@ivestnw.net>

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> I really wish ports would start downloading the next file it needs while
> it is compiling another file, and that it would support resuming of
> files. It's a difficult life for us dial-up users! :)

For resuming downloads you can switch from fetch(1) to wget by setting
FETCH_CMD=/usr/local/bin/wget
and
FETCH_BEFORE_ARGS=-c
But I didn't try it.

About parallel building and fetching I don't think it's really useful. May
be a better way is "make fetch-recursive" before make?

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Sem.



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