fetch resume support

[Frank Laszlo]

Oliver Eikemeier wrote:

> Frank Laszlo wrote:
>
>> I was thinking about this the other evening when I recieved an email 
>> from Trevor Johnson about the SIZE now incorporated into the 
>> distinfo. With this in place, it would be quite easy to add support 
>> for resumable distfile fetching. I would be more than happy to write 
>> a patch for bsd.port.mk for this, but I would like to see how the 
>> community responds to it. What do you all think?
>
>
> Since bsd.port.mk already calls fetch with -Rr, what would you want to 
> patch?
> Btw, how does this relate to SIZE?


I didnt notice this was allready there, go figure. As for the SIZE, I 
figure one could compare the size of what has allready been fetched to 
what exists for the SIZE variable to determine whether or not to use -r. 
apparently this has allready been done. A little late I guess. :)

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Frank Laszlo
VonOstin Group
laszlof at vonstingroup dot com