Re: [pacman-dev] small libdownload patch

On Sat, Dec 27, 2008 at 5:15 AM, Xavier wrote:

On Sat, Dec 27, 2008 at 8:58 AM, Roman Kyrylych wrote:

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...and that bug is fixed there long before in FreeBSD's libfetch. Thanks for info, Aaron! I wasn't aware that NetBSD has their own libfetch. Looks like NetBSD's libfetch was heavily reworked in some places, including some new features added.

Indeed NetBSD's libfetch looked pretty good last time I checked.

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The only thing it's missing from FreeBSD's lbfetch is support for HTTP 1.1 If-Modified-Since behavior (which was only added less than 2 weeks ago).

I believe they merge the changes from times to times, so it should be included eventually, we just need to be patient :)

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There's one Linux-compatability fix after 2.20: http://cvsweb.se.netbsd.org/cgi-bin/bsdweb.cgi/pkgsrc/net/libfetch/files/ftp... Not sure if it's important enough for us though.

That is very cool, it is actually the only patch we needed : http://code.phraktured.net/?p=libfetch.git;a=shortlog;h=refs/heads/linux The only thing left is to provide a linux Makefile, which Aaron already did.

Actually, that patch isn't even needed if we build with CFLAGS="-D_GNU_SOURCE". It still should be merged upstream though, I'll poke the maintainer at some point.