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Date:      Thu, 18 Mar 2004 14:18:12 +0100
From:      Oliver Eikemeier <eikemeier@fillmore-labs.com>
To:        Frank Laszlo <laszlof@vonostingroup.com>
Cc:        freebsd-ports@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: fetch resume support
Message-ID:  <4059A194.3000908@fillmore-labs.com>
In-Reply-To: <40599FD9.2010007@vonostingroup.com>
References:  <40599FD9.2010007@vonostingroup.com>

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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?

-Oliver



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