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On Wed, Feb 20, 2002 at 05:45:52PM +0000, David Laight wrote:
> >   |  * OpenOffice available for NetBSD
> >=20
> > It would probably not be a bad idea to let people know that the distfile
> > for this (well, the bigger of the distfiles) is > 100MB big,
>=20
> Is is possible to split this into files less that about 25Mb?
> Otherwise it is impossible to download over a 56k modem if
> your ISP cuts you off after 2 hours - not unusual in the UK.

If you get a cut file, you can go to the distfiles directory and use
wget to continue the download where you left it. You can take the URL
from the Makefile, for example and then pass it to wget:
   wget -c url://whatever

HTH

>=20
> Maybe the makefile ought to refetch 'corrupt' distfiles as well,
> at least ask you whether you want it to?
>=20
> Do some ftp servers support reads from part was downa file?
> If so it ought to be possible to continue an aborted fetch...
>=20
> > and that
> > to compile it, some huge amount of space is required (my attempt failed
> > after using > 1.2 GB in /usr/obj when the filesystem filled - and that
> > was after all pre-requisites were installed and cleaned up).
> >=20
> > The thing makes teTeX, openmotif and mozilla look like beginners toys...
>=20
> Building Mozilla was a chase of deleting stuff I didn't need any
> more (old BSD source trees) slightly faster than the disk filled
> up.   Maybe some intermediate files could be deleted on the fly?
>=20
> 	David
>=20
> --=20
> David Laight: david@l8s.co.uk

--=20
Of course it runs NetBSD - http://www.netbsd.org
Julio Merino <slink@unixbsd.org>

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