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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