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4.1-STABLE - fetch now going just fine
2 August 2000
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If you read my article on Upgrading to
4.1-STABLE - things to watch out for, you'll know that I, and a few otheres, had
problems with fetch. This problem has been fixed. Thank you Dag-Erling
Smorgrav for providing the fix. Keep reading and I'll show you how I fixed the
problem. ASSUMPTION: I'm assuming you didn't do a make clean after your last build world. If you did, I'm not sure if these instructions will work for you. I recommend instead, that you cvsup, then build world. See The make-world script for how I do this. |
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Fetch the code
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Now this may be a problem if your fetch is broken. If is it, you can
always grab my 4.0-STABLE version of fetch from my website. It is available at [sorry that file is no longer available].
If you get that file, you should
Then fetch should work. Then you should grab the fixed source code, after first saving the original. cd /usr/src/lib/libfetch mv http.c http.c.4.1-stable.original fetch http://www.FreeBSD.org/cgi/cvsweb.cgi/src/lib/libfetch/http.c?rev=1.13.2.8 |
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Compile fetch
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First, save your old fetch, just in case things go wrong:cd /usr/bin cp fetch fetch.which.works If you followed the instructions above for fetching http.c, then here's how I compiled fetch: make cleandir make obj make depend make install Then your fetch should work correctly. |
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Cleaning up
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| I notice that the original 4.1-STABLE version (which caused the problem)
reported that the -b and -t options were deprecated. The fixed version does not do
this. In other words, I'm still using, and must use fetch -b to obtain my files. If you are happy with how everything is working, I'd delete the backups you made: rm /usr/bin/usr/bin rm /usr/src/lib/libfetch/http.c.4.1-stable.original |