From owner-freebsd-ports Fri Sep 10 9:50:40 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Received: from mail.rp-plus.de (clubserv.rp-online.de [149.221.232.11]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 52B5214CCA for ; Fri, 10 Sep 1999 09:50:37 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from alex@cichlids.com) Received: from neutron.cichlids.com (as7-036.rp-plus.de [149.221.239.36]) by mail.rp-plus.de (8.9.1a/8.9.1) with ESMTP id SAA00345; Fri, 10 Sep 1999 18:50:34 +0200 (METDST) Received: from cichlids.cichlids.com (cichlids.cichlids.com [192.168.0.10]) by neutron.cichlids.com (8.9.3/8.9.1) with ESMTP id SAA41261; Fri, 10 Sep 1999 18:51:30 +0200 (CEST) Received: (from alex@localhost) by cichlids.cichlids.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) id SAA36685; Fri, 10 Sep 1999 18:52:15 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from alex) Date: Fri, 10 Sep 1999 18:52:15 +0200 From: Alexander Langer To: Bill Fenner Cc: ports@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Refetch for bsd.port.mk on checksum errors Message-ID: <19990910185215.A36627@cichlids.cichlids.com> Mail-Followup-To: Bill Fenner , ports@freebsd.org References: <199909101618.JAA26093@windsor.research.att.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 1.0pre2i In-Reply-To: <199909101618.JAA26093@windsor.research.att.com> X-PGP-Fingerprint: 44 28 CA 4C 46 5B D3 A8 A8 E3 BA F3 4E 60 7D 7F Sender: owner-freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Thus spake Bill Fenner (fenner@research.att.com): > updated, but maybe doesn't work so well when it's because the port is > stale (since you will never get a checksum match and you will always > refetch). What means "stale" ? the refetch is mainly for interrupted transfers, the refetch for updated ports is only a side effect. Beside this it'll only refetch the distfile once by default, if it reaches the maximum number of tries (1 per default) it stops. Alex -- ************** I doubt, therefore I might be. ************** *** Send email to to get PGP-Key *** To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-ports" in the body of the message