On Sunday 06 May 2012 18:24:21 Alan Corey wrote: > I just saw another good reason to hit ctrl-C. I'm on a modem, and I just > hit boost_1_42_0.tar.gz in an install. That's 40 megs, more than I can > download in a day. I need to use a different process, like put the url in > a text file and feed it to wget with --continue -i <file> > > So I hit ctrl-C, and that got me out of downloading from the first site, > only to start downloading from another, then another. What I really > wanted was to be able to copy a working url and paste it into a text file. > > Alan > > On Wed, 25 Apr 2012, Alan Corey wrote: > > > I've seen this before, I wonder if there's some environment variable I can > > set to stop it? > > > > I try make fetch on a port, it fails due to a bad site. I hit Ctrl-C to > > stop > > it, it goes to the next site and downloads the file. Then it deletes the > > file when it finishes. I type make install and it tries the bad site > > again... > > > > Alan > >
You are able to get a working url. All info for that url is in the Makefile of the port. You could cut and paste an url or do some shell scripting to extract the url's. gr Renzo
