From owner-freebsd-ports Wed Mar 22 0:52:39 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Received: from nothing-going-on.demon.co.uk (nothing-going-on.demon.co.uk [193.237.89.66]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id DD37137BE53; Wed, 22 Mar 2000 00:52:30 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from nik@nothing-going-on.demon.co.uk) Received: (from nik@localhost) by nothing-going-on.demon.co.uk (8.9.3/8.9.3) id IAA71258; Wed, 22 Mar 2000 08:42:26 GMT (envelope-from nik) Date: Wed, 22 Mar 2000 08:42:26 +0000 From: Nik Clayton To: Satoshi - Ports Wraith - Asami Cc: Kris Kennaway , Nik Clayton , ports@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: Feature request: Store dist file size somewhere Message-ID: <20000322084226.A70194@catkin.nothing-going-on.org> References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.95.4i In-Reply-To: ; from Satoshi - Ports Wraith - Asami on Tue, Mar 21, 2000 at 07:07:07PM -0800 Organization: FreeBSD Project Sender: owner-freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On Tue, Mar 21, 2000 at 07:07:07PM -0800, Satoshi - Ports Wraith - Asami wrote: > Yes...in fact, there is some support in already in bsd.port.mk > (disabled for now) to check the size at the ftp site and don't even > try to fetch if the size doesn't match. A nice idea, but not quite what I'm thinking of. I'm really thinking of someone sat at the wrong end of an expensive phone connection who's thinking "Should I do 'make install' now, and hope it's not going to suck down multi-megabytes of data, or should I postpone it and/or find some other way of getting the files?" If they've got to dial up to answer this question then it's not as useful. N -- Internet connection, $19.95 a month. Computer, $799.95. Modem, $149.95. Telephone line, $24.95 a month. Software, free. USENET transmission, hundreds if not thousands of dollars. Thinking before posting, priceless. Somethings in life you can't buy. For everything else, there's MasterCard. -- Graham Reed, in the Scary Devil Monastery To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-ports" in the body of the message