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

[Kris Kennaway]

On Tue, Feb 03, 2004 at 12:45:35PM +0100, Clement Laforet wrote:
> On Tue, 03 Feb 2004 12:04:08 +0100
> Oliver Eikemeier <eikemeier at fillmore-labs.com> wrote:
> 
> [ good bye gnats followup ]
> 
> > 
> > - we have a reason to support other file transfer utilities (e.g. they
> > support
> >   distributed downloading or special firewall protocols) and have to
> >   fix this.
> 
> IMHO, we should support different file transfer utilities. I use wget or
> curl sometimes to check fetching, or limit bandwidth. USE_SIZE should be
> supported when you use fetch, and skipped when you use wget.
> like ${CC}, use an altnertive at your own risk.
> 
> perhaps we should add, something like this...
> 
> .if ${FETCH_CMD:M/usr/bin/fetch} != ""
> FETCH_BEFORE_ARGS+=     $${CKSIZE:+-S $$CKSIZE}
> .endif

AFAIK, historically FETCH_CMD was added because the fetch binary moved
location at some point, and we needed to support the old and new
locations.

I don't think we've ever explicitly supported using a third party
application to download files.

Kris

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