Date: Mon, 17 Apr 2000 02:02:09 +0100 From: Ben Smithurst <ben@scientia.demon.co.uk> To: "David J. Kanter" <djkanter@nwu.edu> Cc: FreeBSD questions <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: Fetching distfiles off-site Message-ID: <20000417020209.I23900@strontium.scientia.demon.co.uk> In-Reply-To: <20000416185651.A95032@localhost.localdomain> References: <20000416185651.A95032@localhost.localdomain>
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David J. Kanter wrote: > My FreeBSD box has only a 56K modem, but I have access to non-BSD machines > that have T1 lines. I'd like to use those machines to download the larger > distfiles, and transfer them onto my BSD machine with a Zip disk. > > How can I interpret the Makefile of a port to ensure that I get all the > appropriate distfiles? Just look at the DISTFILES, BUILD_DEPENDS, and > RUN_DEPENDS? Pretty much. A few caveats though. First, not all ports have DISTFILES, you should read /usr/ports/Mk/bsd.port.mk to see how DISTFILES is determined in that case. Second, you need to look at PATCHFILES, if present, too. There may be other things, look around for fetch related stuff in /usr/ports/Mk/bsd.port.mk for the full story. -- Ben Smithurst / ben@scientia.demon.co.uk / PGP: 0x99392F7D To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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