/etc/make.conf & wget...
Glenn Sieb
ges at wingfoot.org
Tue Mar 2 20:50:19 PST 2004
Jonathan Chen wrote:
>The recent updates to the ports/Mk/* files restricts the FETCH_CMD to
>/usr/bin/fetch. Why would you use wget instead of the base-system's
>fetch to build the ports anyway?
>
>
Because fetch used to break horribly under our stateful ipf firewall at
the office.
Because wget shows you the *status* of a download--not just how many
bytes it's downloaded.
Because I like wget.
So, thank you for your answer of how they changed ports/Mk/* -- I have
reverted my systems back to using fetch.
Glenn
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