ports/62302: SIZE in distinfos causes failure with FETCH_CMD=wget

[Oliver Eikemeier]

The following reply was made to PR ports/62302; it has been noted by GNATS.

From: Oliver Eikemeier <eikemeier at fillmore-labs.com>
To: Vasil Dimov <vd at datamax.bg.dot>
Cc: FreeBSD-gnats-submit at FreeBSD.org, freebsd-ports at FreeBSD.org
Subject: Re: ports/62302: SIZE in distinfos causes failure with FETCH_CMD=wget
Date: Tue, 03 Feb 2004 12:04:08 +0100

 Vasil Dimov wrote:
 
 > [...]
 > Existence of the SIZE line causes `-S bytes' to be passed to the fetch command
 > (according to FETCH_CMD). As it appears wget does not support this feature.
 
 You run into a similar problem if you have distfiles in /cdrom/ports/distfiles
 and do `make FETCH_CMD=wget FETCH_SYMLINK_DISTFILES=yes fetch'. The problem gets
 worse if you do `make FETCH_CMD=curl fetch'. Either:
 
 - only `fetch' is supported, and you can use FETCH_CMD only to specify a different
   path to the binary
 
 or
 
 - we have a reason to support other file transfer utilities (e.g. they support
   distributed downloading or special firewall protocols) and have to fix this.
 
 So, what do you think?