fetch starts over

taxman taxman at acd.net
Fri Apr 18 09:07:44 PDT 2003


On Friday 18 April 2003 12:02 pm, Kris Kennaway wrote:
> 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.

And I just tested it and it works perfectly.  Thanks again

Tim



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