tech-pkg: Re: fetching after an interupted or corrupted download

Subject: Re: fetching after an interupted or corrupted download
To: Bernd Ernesti <netbsd@arresum.inka.de>
From: Robert Elz <kre@munnari.OZ.AU>
List: tech-pkg
Date: 02/25/2002 19:58:19

 Date: 2002年2月23日 23:21:56 +0100
 From: Bernd Ernesti <netbsd@arresum.inka.de>
 Message-ID: <20020223232156.B5914@arresum.veego.de>
 | Arg, please not.
 | 
 | There are a lot of big distfiles in pkgsrc and doing a touch $DISTFILE
 | makes it possible to still do a make fetch in pkgsrc, without fetching this
 | big files.
Agree completely.
My distfile fetch method relies upon "corrupted" distfiles not being
fetched automatically (that is, I fetch on a system with limited space,
and then transfer to a system with no direct net connection - then I
"> ${distfile}" on the system that did the fetch.)
This way the distfiles all look to be present when I "make fetch".
No objection if "make extract" detects a broken distfile and refetches it
(with or without an attempt to fetch the remainder if it looks just truncated).
kre