Re: [Patch] 'prefetch': Recursively download files upfront

[Steve Smith <tarka zip com au>]

On Tue, 2002-10-08 at 20:57, Jeff Waugh wrote:
> <quote who="Steve Smith">
> 
> > As a break from the fontconfig lark, this is a patch to add a new target
> > 'prefetch' to GAR fetch all required files upfront.  Mainly intended for
> > those on dialup who want to do the network stuff upfront.
> 
> You can always "make paranoid-checksum". :-)

That was "upfront", not "forever".  On my connection I'd be better off
waiting for sarge to be released. :)

The point of that patch is to limit the downloads to everything needed
and nothing more.  Works in the meta directories too.

Cheers,
Steve