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Date:      Fri, 17 Mar 2006 12:27:27 -0800
From:      Doug Barton <dougb@FreeBSD.org>
To:        Scot Hetzel <swhetzel@gmail.com>
Cc:        Vadim Goncharov <vadim_nuclight@mail.ru>, freebsd-ports@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Getting distfiles for entire tree
Message-ID:  <441B1BAF.4020904@FreeBSD.org>
In-Reply-To: <790a9fff0603171010p692f4215q2ca05322650f3827@mail.gmail.com>
References:  <1965362278.20060317020244@mail.ru> <790a9fff0603171010p692f4215q2ca05322650f3827@mail.gmail.com>

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Scot Hetzel wrote:

> 'make fetch' on a port, checks if a depending port is installed.  If
> that port is not installed, then it will fetch the sources and install
> the depending port.

'make checksum' does not suffer from this limitation, and has the added
benefit of making sure that you got the right version of the file.

Doug

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