Date: Wed, 22 Mar 2000 08:42:26 +0000 From: Nik Clayton <nik@freebsd.org> To: Satoshi - Ports Wraith - Asami <asami@FreeBSD.org> Cc: Kris Kennaway <kris@FreeBSD.org>, Nik Clayton <nik@FreeBSD.org>, ports@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: Feature request: Store dist file size somewhere Message-ID: <20000322084226.A70194@catkin.nothing-going-on.org> In-Reply-To: <vqcln3bu2hw.fsf@silvia.hip.berkeley.edu>; from Satoshi - Ports Wraith - Asami on Tue, Mar 21, 2000 at 07:07:07PM -0800 References: <Pine.BSF.4.21.0003211840440.84343-100000@freefall.freebsd.org> <vqcln3bu2hw.fsf@silvia.hip.berkeley.edu>
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On Tue, Mar 21, 2000 at 07:07:07PM -0800, Satoshi - Ports Wraith - Asami wrote: > Yes...in fact, there is some support in already in bsd.port.mk > (disabled for now) to check the size at the ftp site and don't even > try to fetch if the size doesn't match. A nice idea, but not quite what I'm thinking of. I'm really thinking of someone sat at the wrong end of an expensive phone connection who's thinking "Should I do 'make install' now, and hope it's not going to suck down multi-megabytes of data, or should I postpone it and/or find some other way of getting the files?" If they've got to dial up to answer this question then it's not as useful. N -- Internet connection, $19.95 a month. Computer, $799.95. Modem, $149.95. Telephone line, $24.95 a month. Software, free. USENET transmission, hundreds if not thousands of dollars. Thinking before posting, priceless. Somethings in life you can't buy. For everything else, there's MasterCard. -- Graham Reed, in the Scary Devil Monastery To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-ports" in the body of the message
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