Date: Thu, 18 Mar 2004 08:24:10 -0500 From: Frank Laszlo <laszlof@vonostingroup.com> To: Oliver Eikemeier <eikemeier@fillmore-labs.com> Cc: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Subject: Re: fetch resume support Message-ID: <4059A2FA.7010603@vonostingroup.com> In-Reply-To: <4059A194.3000908@fillmore-labs.com> References: <40599FD9.2010007@vonostingroup.com> <4059A194.3000908@fillmore-labs.com>
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Oliver Eikemeier wrote: > Frank Laszlo wrote: > >> I was thinking about this the other evening when I recieved an email >> from Trevor Johnson about the SIZE now incorporated into the >> distinfo. With this in place, it would be quite easy to add support >> for resumable distfile fetching. I would be more than happy to write >> a patch for bsd.port.mk for this, but I would like to see how the >> community responds to it. What do you all think? > > > Since bsd.port.mk already calls fetch with -Rr, what would you want to > patch? > Btw, how does this relate to SIZE? I didnt notice this was allready there, go figure. As for the SIZE, I figure one could compare the size of what has allready been fetched to what exists for the SIZE variable to determine whether or not to use -r. apparently this has allready been done. A little late I guess. :) ------------------------------ Frank Laszlo VonOstin Group laszlof at vonstingroup dot com
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