Re: [PATCH] bootstrap.sh: Use ftp instead of wget on OpenBSD

[Mario Domenech Goulart]

On Fri, 20 Dec 2024 08:12:44 +0100 Peter Bex <peter@more-magic.net> wrote:

> On Thu, Dec 19, 2024 at 08:03:30PM +0100, Mario Domenech Goulart wrote:
>> Since the situation regarding fetchers in BSDs seems to be quite
>> fragmented, and will probably be difficult for us to test all cases, how
>> about leaving up to users to specify which fetch command to use (through
>> an environment variable, say, FETCHCMD), falling back to "wget -c" in
>> case FETCHCMD is not set?
>> 
>> This approach should also provide more flexiblity to other systems
>> (including Linux) where wget might not be available.
>
> Hm, I think that's overengineering it.  This is just bootstrap.sh we're
> talking about, which is already quite a niche use case (typically, users
> will use a (pre)release tarball).
>
> Maybe it's fine as it is?  I've never heard any complaints about it.
> What prompted you to come up with this patch in the first place?

I was bootstrapping C6 on an OpenBSD box (without wget) for a salmonella
machine, and since I saw that there's a special case for FreeBSD I
thought it would be ok to have OpenBSD handled as well.

All the best.
Mario
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