Re: [make fetch] is useless

whether or not the merits of your idea are good, it is possible to implement.

1. create some script named 'size' in /usr/ports/infrastructure/build that outputs size in the same manner of the exsting hash algorithms, so that you get something like:

     SIZE (filename) = 4932145

2. add it as another 'algorithm' to the 'distfile' file by inserting the

   code in bsd.port.mk to do this

3. consider sending a diff to ports@

4. enjoy the pleasures of making '(echo [....]; echo reget; ..) | ftp' work

   as there is no commandline option for reget for ftp

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5. implement your logic in bsd.port.mk to do a reget if the distfilesize is

   not the same

6. figure out some way to not remove files if the transfer is aborted

7. make sure the above techniques work for 'mirror-maker' (you can test with

    a small set of files ftp'ing from localhost if you wish)

8. consider sending a diff to ports@

Hope this helps. I'm sure others will have opinions on how sane of an idea this is, but I believe sane or not, it is implementable. Seems like a reasonable idea to me. Personally, I wish all ISP's in the world charged for (a fixed, limited) bandwidth and not bytes transferred, but unfortunately this is not so...

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(last updated 2003/03/13 07:14:10)

Penned by Alexey G. Khramkov on Sun, Jun 08, 2003 at 03:22:30PM +0500, we have:

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