ports/62302: SIZE in distinfos causes failure with FETCH_CMD=wget
Gerard O'Donnell
gerard at serizon.com
Sat Feb 7 08:00:45 UTC 2004
The following reply was made to PR ports/62302; it has been noted by GNATS.
From: "Gerard O'Donnell" <gerard at serizon.com>
To: <freebsd-gnats-submit at FreeBSD.org>, <vd at datamax.bg>
Cc:
Subject: Re: ports/62302: SIZE in distinfos causes failure with FETCH_CMD=wget
Date: Sat, 7 Feb 2004 13:17:22 +1030
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>State-Changed-From-To: open->feedback
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>State-Changed-When: Tue Feb 3 12:04:29 CET 2004
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>asked for feedback: do we have a reason for supporting wget
Yes, we do have a reason for supporting wget - it offers proxy
authentication that fetch does not for people behind corporate firewalls
to download files.
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style=3D'font-size:10.0pt'>>State-Changed-From-To: open->feedback =
<o:p></o:p></span></font></pre><pre><font
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style=3D'font-size:10.0pt'>>State-Changed-By: <span
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style=3D'font-size:10.0pt'>>State-Changed-When: Tue Feb 3 =
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<o:p></o:p></pre><pre><font
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style=3D'font-size:10.0pt'>>State-Changed-Why:<span =
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style=3D'font-size:10.0pt'>>asked for feedback: do we have a reason =
for supporting <span
class=3DSpellE>wget</span> <o:p></o:p></span></font></pre><pre><font =
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style=3D'font-size:10.0pt'>Yes, we do have a reason for supporting <span
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fetch does not for people behind corporate firewalls to download =
files.<o:p></o:p></span></font></pre><pre><font
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