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

[Joe Marcus Clarke]

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

From: Joe Marcus Clarke <marcus at marcuscom.com>
To: Oliver Eikemeier <eikemeier at fillmore-labs.com>
Cc: Vasil Dimov <vd at datamax.bg.dot>,
	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 12:00:19 -0500

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 On Tue, 2004-02-03 at 06:04, Oliver Eikemeier wrote:
 > Vasil Dimov wrote:
 >=20
 > > [...]
 > > 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 feat=
 ure.
 >=20
 > You run into a similar problem if you have distfiles in /cdrom/ports/dist=
 files
 > and do `make FETCH_CMD=3Dwget FETCH_SYMLINK_DISTFILES=3Dyes fetch'. The p=
 roblem gets
 > worse if you do `make FETCH_CMD=3Dcurl fetch'. Either:
 >=20
 > - only `fetch' is supported, and you can use FETCH_CMD only to specify a =
 different
 >   path to the binary
 >=20
 > or
 >=20
 > - we have a reason to support other file transfer utilities (e.g. they su=
 pport
 >   distributed downloading or special firewall protocols) and have to fix =
 this.
 >=20
 > So, what do you think?
 
 This is fixed in the current bento run as a DISABLE_SIZE macro has been
 added.  Defining this in /etc/make.conf will disable the -S argument.=20
 As well, SIZE attributes are now recorded by default unless NO_SIZE is
 defined.
 
 Joe
 
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