On Wed, Feb 18, 2015 at 10:27:12AM -0500, Alan Corey wrote: > This is probably unrelated but I've noticed that the fetching that > happens with "make install" in ports seems less robust than it used to > be. If my internet provider disconnects or the connection gets reset > beyond that, it doesn't resume the download. And I've tried setting > FETCH_CMD to wget -c, it doesn't help much (in 5.6, that's what I have > my 5.2 machine set to). > > So I do a make install, wait until I've got a working URL, then ctrl-c > to stop it, copy the url, open another rxvt in the distfiles dir, type > wget, paste the URL. wget very rarely fails. > > I've got portsql installed and was able to make myself some partial > fetchlists from that but my query didn't find dependencies of > dependencies. A scratch install of 5.6 still took a couple months.
Fetching large subsets of distfiles just works handsomely with dpb -F....
