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Subject: Re: getting 'make install' in ports to use wget
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From: Lowell Gilbert <lowell@world.std.com>
Date: 21 Feb 2001 11:51:55 -0500
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aneroid@subdimension.com (Anirudh Dutt) writes:

> i'm on a dial-up connection and am not really able to stay online long
> enough to download some of the big files. (like mozilla-17mb or
> gnome-applets-5mb). since wget can resume downloads, is there any way i
> can get the ports 'make install' to use wget instead of ftp or whatever?

You can set FETCH_CMD in make.conf, but downloading the files by hand
and putting them into /usr/ports/distfiles is probably easier if human
intervention is required anyway.

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