Accelerated Ports Fetch

The FreeBSD ports system employs "fetch", a single-threaded download utility, for fetching ports off various sources in the internet. "Prozilla" (/usr/ports/ftp/prozilla) is a nice, fast download accelerator with resume capability. Replace fetch with prozilla and voila, you can accelerate the download process. Read on..

Just follow these simple steps,

1. Install prozilla if you haven't already.

   $ cd /usr/ports/ftp/prozilla && make install clean
   

2. Fire up your favorite editor and open "/etc/make.conf" (as root)

   $ emacs /etc/make.conf
   

3. Add the following lines to it -

   FETCH_CMD= proz
   FETCH_BEFORE_ARGS= -r -k=4
   FETCH_AFTER_ARGS=
   DISABLE_SIZE= yes
   

   FETCH_BEFORE_ARGS are arguments to the FETCH_CMD placed before the file name and FETCH_AFTER_ARGS placed after the file name. You might want to change these arguments according to your needs. Note: DISABLE_SIZE= yes, disables the file size check. This is a work around to disable the command line arguments that the ports system adds to the FETCH_CMD command, specific to "fetch".

Thats it, try make/installing any ports, and prozilla will be fired up for fetching missing distfiles.