Date: Fri, 21 Jun 1996 20:37:59 -0500 (EST) From: John Fieber <jfieber@indiana.edu> To: James Raynard <fdocs@jraynard.demon.co.uk> Cc: doc@freebsd.org, ports@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Revised ports entry for handbook Message-ID: <Pine.NEB.3.93.960621203140.9968A-100000@Fieber-John.campusview.indiana.edu> In-Reply-To: <199606212153.VAA09600@jraynard.demon.co.uk>
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On Fri, 21 Jun 1996, James Raynard wrote: > Comments welcomed! A *VAST* improvement! My one nit to pick is about the section on compiling from CD-ROM. If you just link /usr/ports/distfiles to the cdrom, any port which has to fetch a distfile from the net will fall flat on its face with a not-so-helpful error. That said, the correct thing to do is fix bsd.port.mk to automagically check /cdrom/ports/distfiles before marching off to the net to find things. Then you wouldn't need to link anything and the documentation would be much cleaner. I'd do it in a snap, but I'm dealing with a little backlog of other things at the moment. -john == jfieber@indiana.edu =========================================== == http://fallout.campusview.indiana.edu/~jfieber ================
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