Re: [gentoo-portage-dev] emerge feature request: Downloads managed by lock file system

[Thomas Horsten]

On Saturday 07 February 2004 22:07, Jeff Smelser wrote:
> On Saturday 07 February 2004 11:17 am, Sven Vermeulen wrote:
> > A quick 'n dirty hack in the FETCHCOMMAND should suffice. Something along
> > the lines of (pseudocode):
> >
> > FETCHCOMMAND="if exists \${DISTDIR}/`basename \${URL}.lck`; then skip;
> > else \ touch \${DISTDIR}/`basename \${URL}.lck`; \
> >               /usr/bin/wget ...; \
> >               rm \${DISTDIR}/`basename \${URL}.lck`; fi"
>
> I tried this, and got:
>[..] Errors

Notice that Sven said it's pseudocode, just to describe the concept. It's 
incomplete, and has an invalid syntax. For example, "if exists ..." should be 
"if [ -e ...]" to be proper sh code.

The real thing would be a bit more complex.

// Thomas


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