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Date:      Sun, 09 Mar 2014 19:38:25 +0100
From:      Rainer Hurling <rhurlin@gwdg.de>
To:        =?ISO-8859-1?Q?Bernhard_Fr=F6hlich?= <decke@bluelife.at>
Cc:        "ports@freebsd.org Ports" <ports@freebsd.org>
Subject:   Re: RedPorts and restricted distfiles
Message-ID:  <531CB521.5080700@gwdg.de>
In-Reply-To: <CAE-m3X1i6fKLSe0%2BUvkcj1YyeoVwnrdbi7%2BiDwu1bm012yfE6A@mail.gmail.com>
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Am 09.03.2014 18:54, schrieb Bernhard Fröhlich:
> Am 09.03.2014 18:33 schrieb "Rainer Hurling" <rhurlin@gwdg.de>:
>>
>> I am trying to test an update of astro/xephem, which has a restricted
>> distfile.
>>
>> I tried to svn commit the source file as
>> 'distfiles/xephem-3.7.6.tar.gz', but without luck.
>>
>> The RedPorts script seem to expect the distfile at 'tmp/distfiles'. I
>> got this error message:
>>
>> xephem-3.7.6 because of licensing restrictions, you must manually fetch
>> xephem-3.7.6.tar.gz from http://www.clearskyinstitute.com/xephem/, place
>> it in /tmp/distfiles and then run make again.
>>
>>
>> Is there any way, one can test ports with restricted distfiles on
> RedPorts?
>>
>> Any help is really appreciated.
>>
>> Rainer Hurling
> 
> The easiest way to test it is to remove/comment the restricted line and/or
> put the file on an additional temporary mirror. Tinderbox uses a distfile
> cache that is shared per machine so it's a bit complicated to inject
> distfiles there from your build.

I uploaded the distfile to my server and commented the restricted and
the ignore lines. It seems, that your suggestion works quite well!

Many thanks for the quick help,
Rainer




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