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Not all my posts there are FreeBSD related.
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4.1-STABLE - fetch now going just fine2 August 2000
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.
Fetch the code
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
move it file to /usr/bin
cd /usr/bin
mv fetch fetch.doesnotwork
mv fetch.4.0-stable fetch
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
Compile fetch
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.
Cleaning up
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:
