Date: Mon, 25 Mar 2002 22:22:58 +0200 From: Giorgos Keramidas <keramida@ceid.upatras.gr> To: Roman Neuhauser <neuhauser@mobil.cz> Cc: William Evanson <evawil823@hotmail.com>, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Make Fetch resume (Is is possible to do...) Message-ID: <20020325202258.GA37496@hades.hell.gr> In-Reply-To: <20020325080521.GK389@roman.mobil.cz> References: <F85s4RmUBdiAG95OIKa000039c9@hotmail.com> <20020325080521.GK389@roman.mobil.cz>
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On 2002-03-25 09:05, Roman Neuhauser wrote:
> "William Evanson" <evawil823@hotmail.com> wrote:
> >
> > I am still relatively new to the whole ports process. I run a modem
> > connection and downloading distfiles can be a long process. Is there
> > a way to set up the make install process to be able to resume after a
> > lost connection? Can you configure it to use greed or other ftp
> > program?
>
> yup. install e. g. wget (/usr/ports/ftp/wget), and put
> 'FETCH_CMD="/usr/local/bin/wget <options>"' in your /etc/make.conf.
Another option using tools from the base system is:
FETCH_CMD= /usr/bin/fetch -A -r
William, I have remove freebsd-ports from the Cc: list. That list is not
appropriate for asking general questions. Just post to freebsd-questions
the next time you want to ask :-)
Giorgos Keramidas FreeBSD Documentation Project
keramida@{freebsd.org,ceid.upatras.gr} http://www.FreeBSD.org/docproj/
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