Re: offline downloading...

On Fri, 25 Oct 2002 18:25:17 +0200
David Obwaller <[email protected]> wrote:

> On Fri, Oct 25, 2002 at 03:45:33PM +0100, Ewan Mac Mahon wrote:
> > On Fri, Oct 25, 2002 at 04:30:01PM +0200, David Obwaller wrote:
> > > On Fri, Oct 25, 2002 at 02:44:17PM +0100, Ewan Mac Mahon wrote:
> > > > FETCHCOMMAND='echo ${URI} >> /root/fetchurls'
> > > > 
> > > 
> > > does this also work safely if a package has multiple SRC_URIs?
> > >
> > I've not actually tried it, but I can't see why not.
> > 
> > Ewan
> 
> I tried doing 'emerge -f xmms' and the list the FETCHCOMMAND is
> supposed to output was incomplete. the ebuild
> (media-sound/xmms-1.2.7-r13) says:
> 
> SRC_URI="http://www.xmms.org/files/1.2.x/${P}.tar.gz
> 	 mmx? (
> 	 http://members.jcom.home.ne.jp/jacobi/linux/etc/${P}-mmx.patch.gz)"
> 
> so obviously it should download
> http://members.jcom.home.ne.jp/jacobi/linux/etc/xmms-1.2.7-mmx.patch.gz
> *and*
> http://www.xmms.org/files/1.2.x/xmms-1.2.7.tar.gz
> 
> but in the list i only find to links to the xmms-1.2.7-mmx.patch.gz
> file.

It will only attempt the second download of you have inclided mmx in
your USE flags.

> also i get loads of error messages that the stuff couldn't be
> downloaded when i use emerge with the special FETCHCOMMAND.

That is to be expected since it *has* failed to download the files.
-- 
Mark Gordon