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On Tuesday 02 March 2004 08:14 am, Xavier Neys wrote: |
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> Emerge does behave properly in this case. |
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> The problem is that you mistakenly interpret --pretend --fetchonly as |
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> "pretend to fetch". --pretend will list the packages that would be emerged, |
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> --fetchonly either lists the required files or downloads them. |
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> This is very handy to know which files would be required and to write your |
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> own scripts to check whether you already have them. |
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> Behaviour should not change IMHO. |
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agreed ... maybe reporter should read about the '-nc' option in wget since |
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chances are, that's the app they're using to download files with |
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-mike |
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