On Wed, 4 Dec 2002 09:57:31 +0530 Shanker Balan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote :
>See "man make.conf" and look for "FETCH_CMD". Set it to your favorite >down loader. Yes, someone on one of the freebsd news groups did suggest this to me, and I was then able to use 'wget -c' to download packages. But there was still a problem. I did not stay with FreeBSD long enough to identify the cause of the problem, but it seemed to be due to change in the time stamp of some files which caused a re-download of some files. There must be some options I wasn't aware of. After all I did not have time to RTFM then. (But I do have the FreeBSD 4.6 CDs and can always re-install it and learn some more.) >You are missing the point. FreeBSD and Gentoo are targeted at users who >do _NOT_ want to use pre-built packages. Yes, I understand that. But one thing, Debian does have the ability to download source packages using 'deb-src' lines in sources.list file. However, I do believe that ports based distros do provide an easier way of managing those source files. >> Someone at alt.os.linux said that Gentoo's emerge uses 'wget -c'. If >> that is true, then I will probably try Gentoo at college. At least, >> I won't have to pay the phone bill :-) > # setenv FETCH_CMD "wget -c" Thanks for this info. I will be trying it as soon as I get an opportunity to try it on the college computer. Regards, Santanu ------------------------------------------------------- This sf.net email is sponsored by:ThinkGeek Welcome to geek heaven. http://thinkgeek.com/sf _______________________________________________ linux-india-help mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/linux-india-help
