Re: [gentoo-user] Trying to make portage use "puf" instead of "wget"

[Paul Hartman <paul.hartman+gentoo@gmail.com>]

On Fri, Dec 18, 2009 at 9:40 AM, Ronan Mainbourg
<ronan.mainbourg@gmail.com> wrote:
> Because my Internet connection is not very fast, I'd like to make portage
> fetch files using net-misc/puf (wich can dl several chunks of a file at the
> same time) instead of wget.
> I tried to do this setting the parameter FETCHCOMMAND in my make.conf, but
> it doesn't work:
>
> FETCHCOMMAND="/usr/bin/puf \${URI} -P \${DISTDIR}/\${FILE}"
>
> ... Give me when I try emerging a package (here"media-libs/libdvbpsi" for
> instance):
> !!! Couldn't download 'libdvbpsi5-0.1.6.tar.bz2'. Aborting.
>
>
> Any Ideas ?

I think the syntax should be:

FETCHCOMMAND="/usr/bin/puf \${URI} -P \${DISTDIR} -O \${FILE}"

That works for me if I run emerge as normal user. If I run as root, it
crashes... weird.