Getting distfiles for entire tree

[RW]

On Friday 17 March 2006 20:27, Doug Barton wrote:
> Scot Hetzel wrote:
> > 'make fetch' on a port, checks if a depending port is installed.  If
> > that port is not installed, then it will fetch the sources and install
> > the depending port.

It doesn't install. I don't think it checks whether the port is installed 
either.

> 'make checksum' does not suffer from this limitation, and has the added
> benefit of making sure that you got the right version of the file.
>

And that the dowload is completed, "fetch" is happy with a partial dowload, 
"checksum" will cause an incompleted download to resume.