From owner-freebsd-hackers Thu Sep 23 20:22:15 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from zippy.cdrom.com (zippy.cdrom.com [204.216.27.228]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2721C14F35 for ; Thu, 23 Sep 1999 20:22:08 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from jkh@zippy.cdrom.com) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by zippy.cdrom.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id UAA04006; Thu, 23 Sep 1999 20:21:38 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from jkh@zippy.cdrom.com) To: Jaakko Salomaa Cc: hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: A new package fetching utility, pkg_get In-reply-to: Your message of "Fri, 24 Sep 1999 02:18:38 +0300." Date: Thu, 23 Sep 1999 20:21:38 -0700 Message-ID: <4002.938143298@localhost> From: "Jordan K. Hubbard" Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > I had the idea from Debian Linux's atp-get utility, which my friend > praised a lot. The source tarball can be fetched from the following URL: > http://www.saunalahti.fi/~jsalomaa/pkg_get.tar.gz This is quite interesting and I'm looking at it now. Just one quick question though - why did you "roll your own" ftp I/O handling instead of simply using fetch(3) or ftpio(3)? - Jordan To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message