Subject: Re: fetch command for distribution files for package system
To: Jason Thorpe <thorpej@nas.nasa.gov>
From: Justin T. Gibbs <gibbs@plutotech.com>
List: current-users
Date: 12/30/1997 12:01:39
> > is documentation on how a fetch command for NetBSD's package system
> > has to work somewhere available?
>
>What do you mean?  In NetBSD, this is just done w/ ftp's command line
>interface, i.e.:
>
>	ftp ftp://ftp.foo.com/pub/foo/foo.tar.gz

This won't work for the packages that are only distributed via HTTP
unless the NetBSD project caches them somewhere that has ftp access.

--
Justin