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From: 320095285153-0001@t-online.de (Achim Gottinger)
To: gentoo-dev@g.o
Subject: [gentoo-dev] prozilla instead of wget for fetch
Date: Wed, 21 Feb 2001 08:33:58
Message-Id: 3A93D9E5.20A36F7B@gottinger.de
1 Hi devs,
2
3 Today I tested a new download tool as a replacement for wget.
4
5 It's called prozilla and has buildin support for finding the fastest
6 localtion by querying an ftpsearch host and pinging all mirrors.
7 It makes multiple connections to the server and downloads files in
8 portions which should be faster than a single connection.
9
10 I think it would be a good idea to use it as a default.
11 I have not tested if it supports PROXY's.
12
13 If you want to test it add this line to /etc/make.conf
14
15 FETCHCOMMAND="( cd \${DISTDIR};/usr/bin/proz --no-getc --ftpsearch \${x}
16 )"
17
18 replace --ftpsearch with --no-search if you don't want to use the
19 ftpsearch feature.
20
21 PS: packages is in net-www/prozilla
22
23 achim~