On Tue, 30 Dec 1997, Matthias Scheler wrote:

: "bsd.port.mk" looks for a local command to fetch the distribution files
: in "/usr/bin". But because this is a local command per definition it
: should of course reside in "/usr/local/bin".

Uh, no.  The fetch definition there is for FreeBSD's installed
/usr/bin/fetch.  If you want to use it on NetBSD, you don't modify
bsd.port.mk--you put it in /etc/mk.conf.  (That's why it uses a FETCH_CMD?=
style assignment.)  On NetBSD, /usr/bin/fetch shall not exist, so it falls
back to ftp.

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