Date: Wed, 5 Jun 1996 19:05:40 -0400 (EDT) From: Chuck Robey <chuckr@Glue.umd.edu> To: John Fieber <jfieber@indiana.edu> Cc: ports@freebsd.org Subject: Re: DISTDIR idea Message-ID: <Pine.OSF.3.91.960605190451.383C-100000@skipper.eng.umd.edu> In-Reply-To: <Pine.NEB.3.93.960605163334.422q-100000@Fieber-John.campusview.indiana.edu>
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On Wed, 5 Jun 1996, John Fieber wrote: > In helping someone out with some documentation for using the > ports collection, it occured to me that it would be much simpler > for people with CDROMS if the do-fetch target quietly checked > /cdrom/ports/distfiles before DISTDIR and ultimately marching off > to the net. > > The problem is that specifying DISTDIR=/cdrom/ports/distfiles > breaks if the source file isn't there, and the error message you > get from ncftp isn't very useful. The other option, making a > linkfarm in /usr/ports/distfiles requires lndir which comes with > X and it causes things to break if you don't have the correct > CDROM drive. > > It seems like explicitly checking the CDROM first would solve > both of these problems with the added bonus that > /usr/ports/distfiles would only have files not on the CDROM. When > I'm mining for disk space, that is the first place I usually hit > and it would be nice to just rm * it rather than some find > command to list non-symlink files. Great idea, that way I can stop symlinking back and forth, while I try to remember where stuff is. > > Opinions? > > -john > > == jfieber@indiana.edu =========================================== > == http://fallout.campusview.indiana.edu/~jfieber ================ > > ----------------------------+----------------------------------------------- Chuck Robey | Interests include any kind of voice or data chuckr@eng.umd.edu | communications topic, C programming, and Unix. 9120 Edmonston Ct #302 | Greenbelt, MD 20770 | I run Journey2 and n3lxx, both FreeBSD (301) 220-2114 | version 2.2 current -- and great FUN! ----------------------------+-----------------------------------------------
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