Date: Tue, 02 Mar 2004 23:49:46 -0500 From: Glenn Sieb <ges@wingfoot.org> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: /etc/make.conf & wget... Message-ID: <404563EA.80507@wingfoot.org> In-Reply-To: <20040302212850.GA2845@grimoire.chen.org.nz> References: <3107.65.246.246.82.1078254879.squirrel@www.wingfoot.org> <20040302212850.GA2845@grimoire.chen.org.nz>
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Jonathan Chen wrote: >The recent updates to the ports/Mk/* files restricts the FETCH_CMD to >/usr/bin/fetch. Why would you use wget instead of the base-system's >fetch to build the ports anyway? > > Because fetch used to break horribly under our stateful ipf firewall at the office. Because wget shows you the *status* of a download--not just how many bytes it's downloaded. Because I like wget. So, thank you for your answer of how they changed ports/Mk/* -- I have reverted my systems back to using fetch. Glenn
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