Date: Sat, 15 Feb 2003 17:46:37 +0300 From: Yar Tikhiy <yar@FreeBSD.ORG> To: Kris Kennaway <kris@obsecurity.org> Cc: current@FreeBSD.ORG, buildadm@jp.FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: FTP and command-line multiple downloads Message-ID: <20030215144637.GA45693@comp.chem.msu.su> In-Reply-To: <20030214233749.GB3888@rot13.obsecurity.org> References: <20030214233406.GA3814@rot13.obsecurity.org> <20030214233749.GB3888@rot13.obsecurity.org>
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On Fri, Feb 14, 2003 at 03:37:49PM -0800, Kris Kennaway wrote: > On Fri, Feb 14, 2003 at 03:34:06PM -0800, Kris Kennaway wrote: > > Since upgrading bento to running 5.0, it appears that I can no longer > > download multiple files from a FTP server by specifying a glob pattern > > on the command-line: > > > > e.g. > > > > /usr/bin/ftp -4a ftp://snapshots.jp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/snapshots/alpha/5-LATEST/base/base.\?\? > > This appears to work (as it used to) under 4.x. As far as I can see, this is a client-side problem of CURRENT's ftp(1). FreeBSD ftp(1) was completely replaced with "lukemftp," ftp client from NetBSD, in CURRENT a year ago. The commit message was promising: ...Lukemftp supports most of the previous features of FreeBSD ftp, but has been better maintained and includes new features. Unfortunately, this particular feature doesn't fall into that most; "lukemftp" can't seem to detect a glob pattern on the command line. It is said that lukem@netbsd is very responsive, so the matter depends on finding somebody to make a patch and sumbit it to him, and waiting until the patch is merged back to our src/contrib/ along with other "lukemftp" updates. If the advocates of "lukemftp" don't do the job, I think I will do it by myself since I've already volunteered to look after ftpd(8). -- Yar To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
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