On 06/01/15 18:29, Stuart Henderson wrote:
On 2015/06/02 00:09, Dmitrij D. Czarkoff wrote:
Ted Unangst said:
Stuart Henderson wrote:
Sorry, it's not good enough to replace ftp(1) for system use without
ftp. Like it or not, ports fetches need FTP and can't really rely on
installing something for ports to do that.
It's not obvious to me why this would be the case. The ports tree already
depends on various external programs to extract xz, cab, etc.
Fetching files happens really
early, before dependencies are processed.
And the program used to fetch is meant to be user-overridable.
One important thing is missing from this discussion: what exactly is
wrong with ftp(1)?
The code is....to put it nicely....rather dated ;-)
Ever run into the fact that ftp(1) can get stuck during certain
operations if you hit Ctrl-C and you have to kill -9 the process?
That is absolutely ridiculous.
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