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From: Christopher Michaels <ChrisMic@clientlogic.com>
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Subject: RE: make release grabbing all ports?
Date: Wed, 22 Sep 1999 22:35:55 -0400
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> -----Original Message-----
> From:	jack [SMTP:jack@germanium.xtalwind.net]
> Sent:	Wednesday, September 22, 1999 10:29 PM
> To:	Christopher Michaels
> Cc:	FreeBSD Stable (E-mail)
> Subject:	RE: make release grabbing all ports?
> 
> Today Christopher Michaels wrote:
> 
> > I _DID_ read that, and of course that is pointing to the
> > /usr/ports/distfiles directory.  Now, not every tarball that is in that
> dir
> > is REQUIRED by the docports, unless I am totally misunderstanding what
> is
> > meant by "DOCPORTS".
> 
> DOCPORTS is defined in the line above 
> # Set this .....
> as textproc/docproj  Those are the tarballs that it needs.
> Those are the tarballs who's location you need to assign to 
> DISTFILES.
> 
> > So, it appears that it is not very smart about this and just arbitrarily
> > grabs anything in it's path.
> 
> That's exactly what 
>     if [ -d ${DISTFILES}/ ]; then \
>         cp -rp ${DISTFILES} ${CHROOTDIR}/usr/ports/distfiles; \
>     fi
> does.  "not very smart", now there's an understatement.  :)
> 
> > So, since there appears to be no other solution, I am
> > interpreting as meaning I need to make a separate dir and put
> > the docport distfiles there.
> 
> Either that or have a really big CHROOTDIR.
> 
> > I apologize for hoping there was a simpler solution.  I was looking for
> an
> > option to just turn off the grabbing of ALL the distfiles.  There
> apparently
> > doesn't appear to be one.
> 
> make release has never been advertised as "simple".
> 
	Point well taken. :)

	Thanks for the info.

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