Date: Wed, 25 Oct 2006 12:43:06 -0700 From: "Edward Sanford Sutton, III" <mirror176@cox.net> To: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Subject: distfile questions Message-ID: <200610251243.06644.mirror176@cox.net>
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On a couple ports I am working on, availability is only in the form of cvs/svn. I made a temporary prefetch section for my own convenience which calls up a particular revision off the server, compresses an archive of it, and places it in the distfiles directory (thus leaving fetch happy as long as checksums match). Is there a preferred way to handle these cases other than my temporary code or putting it on my ISP's provided webspace which may cap out due to too much monthly upload (and the filetypes may not even be allowed anyways)? Another strange occurence I ran into was expanding the functionality of a port through available addons while I was updating it. It is in the current state of a combination of tar.bz2, cvs (which I turn into a tar.bz2 on my side), and a .zip but the port got a bit complicated in trying to get it to download the .zip but not touch it further (and then I manually tell it to extract it to the correct place, it is just additional data files). Otherwise I have to pick between tar.bz2 files working or the zip file working since the code to extract one fails to process the other correctly. Thanks for any feedback, Ed Sutton
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