On Mon, Mar 10, 2008 at 05:46:25AM +0200, Antti Harri wrote: > On Sun, 9 Mar 2008, Marc Espie wrote: > >> On Sun, Mar 09, 2008 at 08:15:26PM +0200, Antti Harri wrote: >>> >>> How can I fetch files that contain ? and = characters in the filename? >>> The file was something like foo.tar.gz?format=raw >> >> You don't, not directly. It makes no sense. >> >> You should write a shell script that you use as an ftp command that allows >> you to grab the files. > > That would work, yes, but isn't that quite kludgy? Yes the filename is > problematic too but I was waiting for something more elegant from OpenBSD > :-)
Actually, figured out you're talking ports and not packages. Use the right name for these things, will you ? Reworking fetch to do things differently would be interesting and complicated. We might end up doing it at some point, just not right now...
