On Tue, 4 Jun 2013 22:26:03 +0530 Mayuresh <mayur...@acm.org> wrote: > On Tue, Jun 04, 2013 at 06:42:12PM +0200, Alistair Crooks wrote: > > I don't see any updates to the package (beyond ones dealing with > > pkgsrc infrastructure) since its import: > > > > so maybe things have just moved on for them? > > Looks like ... thanks for the findings. > > Anyway, the tool is really nice and I hope it remains in pkgsrc. > > Do not know how this thought sounds, but is it possible to use download > accelerators (like aget) for distfile downloads in pkgsrc (of course not > by default.) Since I got to know about aget, I break my pkgsrc builds when > it is downloading and manually download from the same URL using aget. > Often it speeds up the things. > > (Of course it won't benefit cases where distfile download already consumes > your internet connection's bandwidth fully.)
You could also consider the following alternatives, which are maintained: aria2; curl; wget. -- Gerard Lally
