On Fri, 20 Dec 2024 08:12:44 +0100 Peter Bex <[email protected]> wrote:
> On Thu, Dec 19, 2024 at 08:03:30PM +0100, Mario Domenech Goulart wrote: >> Since the situation regarding fetchers in BSDs seems to be quite >> fragmented, and will probably be difficult for us to test all cases, how >> about leaving up to users to specify which fetch command to use (through >> an environment variable, say, FETCHCMD), falling back to "wget -c" in >> case FETCHCMD is not set? >> >> This approach should also provide more flexiblity to other systems >> (including Linux) where wget might not be available. > > Hm, I think that's overengineering it. This is just bootstrap.sh we're > talking about, which is already quite a niche use case (typically, users > will use a (pre)release tarball). > > Maybe it's fine as it is? I've never heard any complaints about it. > What prompted you to come up with this patch in the first place? I was bootstrapping C6 on an OpenBSD box (without wget) for a salmonella machine, and since I saw that there's a special case for FreeBSD I thought it would be ok to have OpenBSD handled as well. All the best. Mario -- http://parenteses.org/mario
