From owner-freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Mar 18 05:11:09 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8362E16A4CE for ; Thu, 18 Mar 2004 05:11:09 -0800 (PST) Received: from mail.vonostingroup.com (ip209-154.digitalrealm.net [216.144.209.154]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 9C3EF43D1D for ; Thu, 18 Mar 2004 05:11:08 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from laszlof@vonostingroup.com) Received: (qmail 35239 invoked by uid 0); 18 Mar 2004 13:11:30 -0000 Received: from laszlof@vonostingroup.com by ritamari.vonostingroup.com by uid 89 with qmail-scanner-1.20 Clear:RC:0(68.32.91.145):SA:0(2.6/5.0):. Processed in 13.701264 secs); 18 Mar 2004 13:11:30 -0000 X-Spam-Status: No, hits=2.6 required=5.0 Received: from unknown (HELO vonostingroup.com) (laszlof@68.32.91.145) by ip209-154.digitalrealm.net with SMTP; 18 Mar 2004 13:11:16 -0000 Message-ID: <40599FD9.2010007@vonostingroup.com> Date: Thu, 18 Mar 2004 08:10:49 -0500 From: Frank Laszlo User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.5) Gecko/20040301 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: fetch resume support X-BeenThere: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: Porting software to FreeBSD List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 18 Mar 2004 13:11:09 -0000 I was thinking about this the other evening when I recieved an email from Trevor Johnson about the SIZE now incorporated into the distinfo. With this in place, it would be quite easy to add support for resumable distfile fetching. I would be more than happy to write a patch for bsd.port.mk for this, but I would like to see how the community responds to it. What do you all think? ------------------------------ Frank Laszlo VonOstin Group laszlof at vonstingroup dot com