On Friday 20 July 2007, Mark Linimon wrote: > On Fri, Jul 20, 2007 at 04:07:49PM -0400, Bill Moran wrote: > > Even better would be for make to realize that it's only doing the > > fetching, and do it anyway. > > That still doesn't help with the problem of a user who starts a 10MB > download that won't work on his architecture or OS release. The code > is all the same. This is the aggravation we are trying to prevent. >
That still doesn't address the concern or improve the system downtime that a pkg_delete, make install allows. If you can't run something, you don't have any downtime but to have to pkg_delete before you start the tarball fetch can be really long on some ports. Kent -- Kent Stewart Richland, WA http://www.soyandina.com/ "I am Andean project". http://users.owt.com/kstewart/index.html _______________________________________________ [email protected] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-ports To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
