Subject: Re: broken make-fetchlist fixit how-to
To: None <oinkfreebiker@att.net>
From: Jasper Wallace <jasper@pointless.net>
List: netbsd-help
Date: 09/08/2001 18:07:04
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6On Sat, 8 Sep 2001 oinkfreebiker@att.net wrote:

> Jasper,
>
> Too clever...okay. Thanks for the help. I'm trying that
> now...up to the "wait ages" part. If it works as
> advertised I will gladly re-write my how-to and credit
> you with the tip off.

I realised after i sent the mail that it won't help with partial/interupted
downloads.

You could try adding 'FAILOVER_FETCH=1' to /etc/mk.conf before you do the
fetch...

> The reason I didn't try that before was because the last
> time I applied to this list...nobody suggested any such
> thing quite so clearly. So I had to go with what was
> offered me. Which is exactly what I ment by folks being
> "guruishly terse".
>
> It's kind of funny, because, I know a real Tibetan guru,
> and he speaks ever so much more plainly than typical
> Unician variety.

Hmmm ;-)

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