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Date:      Wed, 04 Feb 2004 06:35:47 +0300
From:      Sergey Matveychuk <sem@ciam.ru>
To:        Kris Kennaway <kris@obsecurity.org>
Cc:        freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.org
Subject:   Re: ports/62302: SIZE in distinfos causes failure with FETCH_CMD=wget
Message-ID:  <40206893.6090903@ciam.ru>
In-Reply-To: <20040204022652.GA12386@xor.obsecurity.org>
References:  <1075796985.964405.22320.nullmailer@sinanica.lg2a.datamax> <401F8028.6010609@fillmore-labs.com> <20040203124535.691a3c12.sheepkiller@cultdeadsheep.org> <20040204022652.GA12386@xor.obsecurity.org>

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Kris Kennaway wrote:

> AFAIK, historically FETCH_CMD was added because the fetch binary moved
> location at some point, and we needed to support the old and new
> locations.
> 
> I don't think we've ever explicitly supported using a third party
> application to download files.

But many people use it this way. Like me.

-- 
Sem.



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