From owner-freebsd-hackers Fri Sep 24 7:27: 2 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from peach.ocn.ne.jp (peach.ocn.ne.jp [210.145.254.87]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1511514FAF for ; Fri, 24 Sep 1999 07:26:53 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dcs@newsguy.com) Received: from newsguy.com by peach.ocn.ne.jp (8.9.1a/OCN) id XAA00133; Fri, 24 Sep 1999 23:22:07 +0900 (JST) Message-ID: <37EB34AE.35683512@newsguy.com> Date: Fri, 24 Sep 1999 17:22:06 +0900 From: "Daniel C. Sobral" X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.6 [en] (Win98; I) X-Accept-Language: en,pt-BR,ja MIME-Version: 1.0 To: "Jordan K. Hubbard" Cc: Jaakko Salomaa , hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: A new package fetching utility, pkg_get References: <4002.938143298@localhost> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG "Jordan K. Hubbard" wrote: > > > I had the idea from Debian Linux's atp-get utility, which my friend > > praised a lot. The source tarball can be fetched from the following URL: > > http://www.saunalahti.fi/~jsalomaa/pkg_get.tar.gz > > This is quite interesting and I'm looking at it now. Just one quick > question though - why did you "roll your own" ftp I/O handling instead > of simply using fetch(3) or ftpio(3)? Alas, it also seems to have a "default" ftp site. I don't think that's a good idea (remember CHANGE_THIS.freebsd.org :). An environment variable would do just as well, except... this is the kind of tool like to be used by clueless users, which are the ones most likely to really want a default site. -- Daniel C. Sobral (8-DCS) dcs@newsguy.com dcs@freebsd.org "Thus, over the years my wife and I have physically diverged. While I have zoomed toward a crusty middle-age, she has instead clung doggedly to the sweet bloom of youth. Naturally I think this unfair. Yet, if it was the other way around, I confess I wouldn't be happy either." To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message