From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 4.0.0 (2022-12-14) on finch.gentoo.org X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=0.2 required=5.0 tests=DATE_IN_PAST_12_24, DMARC_MISSING,FREEMAIL_FROM,INVALID_DATE,MAILING_LIST_MULTI, RCVD_IN_MSPIKE_H3,RCVD_IN_MSPIKE_WL autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=4.0.0 Received: from mailout03.sul.t-online.com ([194.25.134.81]) by cvs.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 3.22 #1) id 14g8CM-0006Qq-00 for gentoo-dev@gentoo.org; Thu, 22 Mar 2001 09:44:30 -0700 Received: from fwd03.sul.t-online.com by mailout03.sul.t-online.com with smtp id 14g8DX-0006ol-00; Thu, 22 Mar 2001 17:45:43 +0100 Received: from helios.bagwan (320095285153-0001@[62.155.143.162]) by fwd03.sul.t-online.com with smtp id 14g8DQ-1pMY4WC; Thu, 22 Mar 2001 17:45:36 +0100 Received: (qmail 21430 invoked by uid 0); 22 Mar 2001 19:27:54 -0000 Received: from sadchitananda2.bagwan (HELO gottinger.de) (achim@192.168.2.1) by helios.bagwan with SMTP; 22 Mar 2001 19:27:54 -0000 Message-ID: <3ABA25D1.D3AB5E57@gottinger.de> From: AGottinger@t-online.de (Achim Gottinger) X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.7 [en] (X11; I; Linux 2.2.14 i686) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: gentoo-dev@gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: A better FTP client with Gentoo enhancements References: <20010322084457.E23787@cvs.gentoo.org> <01032217155800.04128@cerberus> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Sender: 320095285153-0001@t-dialin.net Sender: gentoo-dev-admin@gentoo.org Errors-To: gentoo-dev-admin@gentoo.org X-BeenThere: gentoo-dev@gentoo.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.0 Precedence: bulk Reply-To: gentoo-dev@gentoo.org X-Reply-To: achim@gentoo.org List-Help: List-Post: List-Subscribe: , List-Id: Gentoo Linux development list List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: Date: Thu Mar 22 09:45:01 2001 X-Original-Date: Thu, 22 Mar 2001 17:18:25 +0100 X-Archives-Salt: 9e89d23b-a15a-444f-b9cd-ae08c2e726bd X-Archives-Hash: 513b3e4943ddd8f30ae7f7c8a260ab3f Philippe Namias wrote: > > On Thursday 22 March 2001 16:44, you wrote: > > On Thu, Mar 22, 2001 at 09:23:14AM -0600, Bryce Porter wrote: > > > Ouch... Wget is very lightweight and does an excellent job of what it is > > > used for. It is small and simple, and easy to understand. Why fix what > > > isn't broken, anyway? > > > > I think it would be a good idea to use the same ftp program as FreeBSD, > > because their ftp program is great, and it will be another nice thing for > > FreeBSD users who need to use Linux. It'll make them feel at home. Also, > > the wget output *is* quite ugly. > > The ftp program considering the fecth function as been quite a discussion for > a long time along FreeBSD developper and i think they still want to change it > as there are some bug in it (i will try to find out more on mailing list). > OpenBSD used a different way so... > Why i disklike using this ftp or wget is the totally absence of > "intellingence of them". I remember spendig more time downloading stuff under > FreeBSD than compiling (when leaving fetch do stuff alone). > That why for my part i recommend Prozilla (Achim wrote an e-mail about this > one). > This one is really forward (multiple donwload at the same time, searching the > fastest mirror near you, resume...) > > Go to > http://www.lintux.cx/~kalum/prozilla.html for more details > > I made a change in the make.default where i include a line for prozilla so > just uncomment it and comment the wget line. And try it. > > And concerning the ouput, i think each person have an esthetic point of view > on this. > So i you don't like, just add some command line argument to change it or hack > it (this kind of stuff are generally quiet easy to hack so you can ge wget > look like ftp from FreeBSD/NetBSD). > Philipe, did you fix the fetch function already? I have an idea how we can make it more flexible for different download apps. We can add a script to each download app (example: /usr/lib/portage/fetch/wget.fetch ). This script holds a wrapper function for the fetch programm , a function to detect if we have already partial downloaded and a function to remove partial downloaded files. Then we can replace the FETCHCOMMAND variable with a var called FETCH. If you set this for example to "wget", ebuild sources /usr/lib/portage/fetch/wget.fetch and we can use the functions in ebuild fetch function. achim~ > > > > If the new ftp program works well (haven't tested it yet), I'm willing to > > make it the default download app for the above-stated reasons > > > > Best Regards, > > _______________________________________________ > gentoo-dev mailing list > gentoo-dev@gentoo.org > http://www.gentoo.org/mailman/listinfo/gentoo-dev