The fetch command in Portfiles

[Ryan Schmidt]

On Jul 9, 2007, at 09:45, Doug McCorkle wrote:

> The correct fetch.ignore_sslcert command solved my problems. In  
> regards to the args command I thought I might be able to pass  
> command line args to the utility that downloads packages. In  
> MacPorts what is used to download packages? Is it curl?

It is curl, but I don't think there's a way to pass arbitrary  
arguments to it. I'm not even sure whether it's called as a command- 
line utility or used as a library. I think if you need some special  
functionality to download something, then that functionality should  
be built into MacPorts base and made available via the fetch object,  
like fetch.ignore_sslcert.