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Authored by john.grafton_runbox.com on Jan 25 2023, 3:55 PM.
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After a failed upgrade, having fetch(1) on a system that is physically unnreachable would be very useful to download files required to get the OS back up and functional.

Requested by Dan Mahoney: https://bugs.freebsd.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=266224

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This adds approximately 600kB to the rescue binary (about 3.8%) on amd64 but I think it's a reasonable price to pay.

This revision is now accepted and ready to land.Jan 29 2023, 10:57 PM
This revision was automatically updated to reflect the committed changes.