Subject: Re: OpenOffice available for NetBSD
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From: David Laight <david@l8s.co.uk>
List: netbsd-users
Date: 02/20/2002 20:28:32
> You can use wget for that. Put this in /etc/mk.conf:
>
> FETCH_CMD= /usr/pkg/bin/wget
>
> When your ISP cuts you off, you'll have part of the big file sitting in
> /usr/pkgsrc/distfiles. Just 'make fetch' again and wget will continue
> where it left off. I think that will work.
> You might need to add the "-c" option.
>
Except that the makefile will assume that the partial file is the
correct one and not start the download.
To get the fetch to happen you have to delete the partial file :-(
David
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