Gentoo Archives: gentoo-dev

From: Paul de Vrieze <gentoo-user@××××××××.net>
To: gentoo-dev@g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] multiple ftp logins
Date: Tue, 18 Mar 2003 14:29:13
Message-Id: 200303181529.10980.gentoo-user@devrieze.net
In Reply to: [gentoo-dev] multiple ftp logins by Sebastian Anding
1 On Tuesday 18 March 2003 15:11, Sebastian Anding wrote:
2 > Hi,
3 >
4 > is it possible to login only once if an ebuild needs more than one file?
5 > Because some mirrors have restricted number of ftp logins and if the
6 > connection is not closed the server will refuse to login.
7 >
8
9 I thought/believe portage only downloads files sequentially. Thus if you don't
10 use a download manager that opens multiple connections (eg. prozilla) it
11 should work.
12
13 Paul
14
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16 Paul de Vrieze
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