Date: Wed, 21 Feb 2001 10:44:23 -0600 (CST) From: David Scheidt <dscheidt@tumbolia.com> To: Anirudh Dutt <aneroid@subdimension.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: getting 'make install' in ports to use wget Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.4.21.0102211039140.93892-100000@shell-3.enteract.com> In-Reply-To: <3A93EC16.662A9CD0@subdimension.com>
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On Wed, 21 Feb 2001, Anirudh Dutt wrote: :hi :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? : Making it use wget would be easy. Dumb, but easy. Making it smart enough to restart a fetch is much harder (and fetch(1), the tool that the ports make fetch target uses, can do this too.) probably the easiest thing for you to do is manually fetch the distfiles. Put them in /usr/ports/distfiles/ and they'll just work. (For most things, there are a handfull of ports that create their own subdirectories. That's documented in the Makefile, of course, and it's also in the output that says "foo.tar.gz not found in ports/distfiles/foo/".) -- dscheidt@tumbolia.com Bipedalism is only a fad. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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