>> On Mar 24, 2025, at 12:48, Sergey Fedorov wrote: >> >> Is it something trivially doable or is it gonna require some rewrites? > > I haven't looked at the code. But enabling the option to continue where it > left off should be just a few lines of code, possibly in multiple places > (once for distfiles, once for archives). > > https://curl.se/libcurl/c/CURLOPT_RESUME_FROM.html > > If MacPorts deletes the incomplete file, then that would have to be changed > to keep the file. If MacPorts uses the final filename when downloading, it > would probably need to change to using a temporary filename and renaming it > to the final name when it's done.
I would also expose the curl --limit-rate option via the “port" interface. In some places (some hotels for example) companies try to limit the bandwidth a user gets for large files and this may eventually interrupt an installation. I just recently had a case where a port fetch failed twice in a row. I then downloaded it manually using curl and limited download rate and it worked fine.
