fetch starts over
taxman
taxman at acd.net
Fri Apr 18 07:24:06 PDT 2003
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?
Tim
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