Date: Fri, 24 Sep 1999 17:22:06 +0900 From: "Daniel C. Sobral" <dcs@newsguy.com> To: "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@zippy.cdrom.com> Cc: Jaakko Salomaa <jsalomaa@saunalahti.fi>, hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: A new package fetching utility, pkg_get Message-ID: <37EB34AE.35683512@newsguy.com> References: <4002.938143298@localhost>
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"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)? Alas, it also seems to have a "default" ftp site. I don't think that's a good idea (remember CHANGE_THIS.freebsd.org :). An environment variable would do just as well, except... this is the kind of tool like to be used by clueless users, which are the ones most likely to really want a default site. -- Daniel C. Sobral (8-DCS) dcs@newsguy.com dcs@freebsd.org "Thus, over the years my wife and I have physically diverged. While I have zoomed toward a crusty middle-age, she has instead clung doggedly to the sweet bloom of youth. Naturally I think this unfair. Yet, if it was the other way around, I confess I wouldn't be happy either." To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
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