Date: Fri, 8 Dec 2000 19:27:42 +0200 From: Peter Pentchev <roam@orbitel.bg> To: Joerg Wunsch <joerg_wunsch@interface-business.de> Cc: freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: How to connect additional distribution files to a port? Message-ID: <20001208192741.A11933@ringworld.oblivion.bg> In-Reply-To: <20001208160616.G22163@B7173150.DeutschePost.de>; from j@ida.interface-business.de on Fri, Dec 08, 2000 at 04:06:16PM %2B0100 References: <20001208151658.D22163@B7173150.DeutschePost.de> <20001208155822.A58038@cichlids.cichlids.com> <20001208160616.G22163@B7173150.DeutschePost.de>
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On Fri, Dec 08, 2000 at 04:06:16PM +0100, J Wunsch wrote: > As Alexander Langer wrote: > > > What's wrong with just adding it to the DISTFILES variable and maybe > > setting EXTRACT_ONLY to the files that need to be extracted? > > I was sure i overlooked something. :) W ell, this could work for my > current project since both files are to be fetched from the same site. > I'll try it, thanks for the suggestion. > > It wouldn't have worked in the avr-libc case, where the doc file was > to be fetched from a totally different site. Why wouldn't it have worked? It is perfectly legal to specify more than one location in MASTER_SITES, and even more than one MASTER_SITE_SUBDIR. The ports collection Makefiles shall do the necessary magic to try to fetch all files from all dirs of all sites until success :) G'luck, Peter -- If the meanings of 'true' and 'false' were switched, then this sentence wouldn't be false. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-ports" in the body of the message
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