Date: Sun, 21 Mar 2004 11:42:00 +0000 From: Ben Paley <ben@spooty.net> To: "freebsd -questions@" <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: fetch, modification time and -F Message-ID: <200403211139.02480.ben@spooty.net>
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Hello, I'm on a free dial-up (crap but cheap, as the Levellers used to say) and the connection drops quite often. As a result I often get left with bits of files half downloaded. Abou half the time I can pick them up using -rR without any problems, and the rest of the time I get a "local modification time does not match remote blah blah" error, so I have to use -F to force it. That's not too bad if I'm actually at the machine, but as soon as I try to automate something it's a total wind-up: for instance, trying to do portupgrade -RF kde. So my question is how can I stop this happening? Should I set it somewhere (where?) so that fetch automatically assumes -F when run from make or portinstall or whatever? And would that be safe? OR, should I reset my system clock which I think is pretty accurate at the moment? OR, do I just have to put up with it till I can get a proper connection? Thanks for your help, Cheers, Ben
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