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Date:      Wed, 26 Feb 1997 04:32:33 GMT
From:      Adam David <adam@veda.is>
To:        imp@village.ORG (Warner Losh)
Cc:        freebsd-ports@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: make -k oddities
Message-ID:  <199702260432.EAA07601@veda.is>
References:  <E0vzFyq-00065w-00@rover.village.org>

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>When I do a make -k for a port that I don't have (and can't get) the
>dist file for, then it will try to fetch and fail.  Once it fails it
>will then try to patch, which it shouldn't do.

make -k means "ignore error return from command" but bsd.port.mk uses the
error return to bail out at that point.

>I've also seen weird things where sometimes it would fetch things
>twice, mysteriously hang when failing back to ftp.freebsd.org (but
>only sometimes, and sometimes after < 64k was trasnferred) and a few
>other sh related oddities.

If the network connection breaks during fetch, the next site on the list is
tried. I have sometimes seen fetch fail on the last byte of the file.

--
Adam David <adam@veda.is>



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