fetch starts over

Kris Kennaway kris at obsecurity.org
Fri Apr 18 09:02:57 PDT 2003


On Fri, Apr 18, 2003 at 10:23:32AM -0400, taxman wrote:
> On Friday 18 April 2003 05:41 am, Kris Kennaway wrote:
> > On Thu, Apr 17, 2003 at 10:41:08PM -0400, taxman wrote:
> > > Hi all,
> > >
> > > I'm sure this is known, but it seems fixable.  When trying to fetch a
> > > distfile, if it fails, then fetch overwrites it and starts from the
> > > begining.
> >
> > Heh..nice timing.  cvsup your ports collection; I committed a patch
> > yesterday that changes fetch to retry fetches if the checksum does not
> > match.
> 
> Thanks Kris!  I haven't had a fetch fail since cvsup to test it yet but thanks 
> a lot.  I assume (without understanding the makefile :) that it tests to see 
> if a partial file is there and will continue on if it is, instead of starting 
> from the beginning?

Yes.

Kris
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