From owner-cvs-usrbin Wed Jun 25 08:44:31 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id IAA29344 for cvs-usrbin-outgoing; Wed, 25 Jun 1997 08:44:31 -0700 (PDT) Received: from rover.village.org (rover.village.org [204.144.255.49]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with SMTP id IAA29276; Wed, 25 Jun 1997 08:43:51 -0700 (PDT) Received: from rover.village.org [127.0.0.1] by rover.village.org with esmtp (Exim 1.60 #1) id 0wguE8-0001uQ-00; Wed, 25 Jun 1997 09:43:24 -0600 To: =?KOI8-R?B?4c7E0sXKIP7F0s7P1w==?= Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/usr.bin/ftp complete.c fetch.c util.c Makefile cmds.c cmdtab.c domacro.c extern.h ftp.1 ftp.c ftp_var.h main.c pathnames.h ruserpass.c Cc: "Jordan K. Hubbard" , Michael Smith , cvs-committers@freebsd.org, cvs-all@freebsd.org, cvs-usrbin@freebsd.org In-reply-to: Your message of "Wed, 25 Jun 1997 17:59:45 +0400." References: Date: Wed, 25 Jun 1997 09:43:24 -0600 From: Warner Losh Message-Id: Sender: owner-cvs-usrbin@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk In message =?KOI8-R?B?4c7E0sXKIP7F0s7P1w==?= writes: : Only when new ftp will handle {ftp,http}://user:password@host:port/path : URLs properly (f.e. not confused by @ in password, not confused by first : :, etc) And *ONLY* when you can fetch the entire /usr/ports/distfiles tree with it w/o errors, even when the first couple of sites don't have the files in question. Other updated ftp programs have had problems doing this in the past, and it was one of the many problems that were faced in getting the ports system going on OpenBSD (and one of the reasons that I put my involvment of that project on hold for a while). Warner