From owner-freebsd-questions Sun Apr 16 19:25:20 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from scientia.demon.co.uk (scientia.demon.co.uk [212.228.14.13]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 12CF937B8C6 for ; Sun, 16 Apr 2000 19:25:12 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from ben@scientia.demon.co.uk) Received: from strontium.scientia.demon.co.uk ([192.168.91.36] ident=exim) by scientia.demon.co.uk with esmtp (Exim 3.12 #1) id 12gzvV-000MG8-00; Mon, 17 Apr 2000 02:02:09 +0100 Received: (from ben) by strontium.scientia.demon.co.uk (Exim 3.12 #7) id 12gzvV-00054s-00; Mon, 17 Apr 2000 02:02:09 +0100 Date: Mon, 17 Apr 2000 02:02:09 +0100 From: Ben Smithurst To: "David J. Kanter" Cc: FreeBSD questions Subject: Re: Fetching distfiles off-site Message-ID: <20000417020209.I23900@strontium.scientia.demon.co.uk> References: <20000416185651.A95032@localhost.localdomain> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 1.0i In-Reply-To: <20000416185651.A95032@localhost.localdomain> Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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