fetch resume support
Oliver Eikemeier
eikemeier at fillmore-labs.com
Thu Mar 18 05:18:20 PST 2004
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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