Date: Mon, 25 Mar 2002 09:05:21 +0100 From: Roman Neuhauser <neuhauser@mobil.cz> To: William Evanson <evawil823@hotmail.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG, freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Make Fetch resume (Is is possible to do...) Message-ID: <20020325080521.GK389@roman.mobil.cz> In-Reply-To: <F85s4RmUBdiAG95OIKa000039c9@hotmail.com> References: <F85s4RmUBdiAG95OIKa000039c9@hotmail.com>
next in thread | previous in thread | raw e-mail | index | archive | help
> From: "William Evanson" <evawil823@hotmail.com>
> To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG, freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG
> Subject: Make Fetch resume (Is is possible to do...)
> Date: Mon, 25 Mar 2002 01:35:00 -0600
>
> I am still relatively new to the whole ports process. I run a modem
> connection and downloading distfiles can be a long process. Is there
> a way to set up the make install process to be able to resume after a
> lost connection? Can you configure it to use greed or other ftp
> program?
yup. install e. g. wget (/usr/ports/ftp/wget), and put
'FETCH_CMD="/usr/local/bin/wget <options>"' in your /etc/make.conf.
--
FreeBSD 4.4-STABLE
9:00AM up 16:46, 13 users, load averages: 0.00, 0.01, 0.00
To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org
with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
Want to link to this message? Use this URL: <https://mail-archive.FreeBSD.org/cgi/mid.cgi?20020325080521.GK389>