Date: Fri, 24 Sep 1999 12:53:54 +0300 (EEST) From: Jaakko Salomaa <jsalomaa@saunalahti.fi> To: "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@zippy.cdrom.com> Cc: hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: A new package fetching utility, pkg_get Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.4.10.9909241248380.2089-100000@kone.kala.net> In-Reply-To: <4002.938143298@localhost>
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On Thu, 23 Sep 1999, Jordan K. Hubbard wrote: > > 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)? Well, it uses fetch(1) to fetch the packages, but to be honest, I did not know about fetch(3) and ftpio(3). But these look like a better way to do the directory listing - I'll switch to them ASAP. And also, because I try to learn to become a better C programmer as a by-product, I sometimes make things stoopidly just to see if I could make them work that way ;-p (this wasn't the case this time, however.) May you live long and prosper. Jaakko Salomaa To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
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