From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Mar 25 12:23: 8 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mailsrv.otenet.gr (mailsrv.otenet.gr [195.170.0.5]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2561837B419 for ; Mon, 25 Mar 2002 12:23:03 -0800 (PST) Received: from hades.hell.gr (patr530-a128.otenet.gr [212.205.215.128]) by mailsrv.otenet.gr (8.12.2/8.12.2) with ESMTP id g2PKN0Ig027443; Mon, 25 Mar 2002 22:23:01 +0200 (EET) Received: from hades.hell.gr (hades [127.0.0.1]) by hades.hell.gr (8.12.2/8.12.2) with ESMTP id g2PKMxaW040737; Mon, 25 Mar 2002 22:22:59 +0200 (EET) (envelope-from keramida@freebsd.org) Received: (from charon@localhost) by hades.hell.gr (8.12.2/8.12.2/Submit) id g2PKMxZp040731; Mon, 25 Mar 2002 22:22:59 +0200 (EET) (envelope-from keramida@freebsd.org) Date: Mon, 25 Mar 2002 22:22:58 +0200 From: Giorgos Keramidas To: Roman Neuhauser Cc: William Evanson , freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Make Fetch resume (Is is possible to do...) Message-ID: <20020325202258.GA37496@hades.hell.gr> References: <20020325080521.GK389@roman.mobil.cz> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20020325080521.GK389@roman.mobil.cz> User-Agent: Mutt/1.3.28i Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On 2002-03-25 09:05, Roman Neuhauser wrote: > "William Evanson" wrote: > > > > I am still relatively new to the whole ports process. I run a modem > > connection and downloading distfiles can be a long process. Is there > > a way to set up the make install process to be able to resume after a > > lost connection? Can you configure it to use greed or other ftp > > program? > > yup. install e. g. wget (/usr/ports/ftp/wget), and put > 'FETCH_CMD="/usr/local/bin/wget "' in your /etc/make.conf. Another option using tools from the base system is: FETCH_CMD= /usr/bin/fetch -A -r William, I have remove freebsd-ports from the Cc: list. That list is not appropriate for asking general questions. Just post to freebsd-questions the next time you want to ask :-) Giorgos Keramidas FreeBSD Documentation Project keramida@{freebsd.org,ceid.upatras.gr} http://www.FreeBSD.org/docproj/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message