On Tue, 25 Jul 2000, Mike Harding wrote:
>
> Recently I have noticed that one of the following happens if you
> interrupt a fetch during a ports 'make' (say because you have a dialup
> and the port is downloading an 18M file):
>
> 1. Fetch runs in the background and you have to stop it multiple times.
>
> 2. Fetch leaves a truncated file in /usr/ports/distfiles which much
> be deleted by hand.
>
> Is there any chance for a return to the old behavior (cntl-C stops
> fetch, file deleted) for 4.1? It's a lot friendlier for us dial-up
> folk...
>
I brought up (2) last week, with absolutely no response. I too prefer the
previous behaviour of deleting truncated files instead of manually
deleting them prior to re-fetching a port.
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