Date: Sat, 8 Oct 2005 04:20:02 +0300 From: Ion-Mihai Tetcu <itetcu@people.tecnik93.com> To: Edwin Groothuis <edwin@mavetju.org> Cc: freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: Another administrative variable: NOFETCHFILES Message-ID: <20051008042002.2fa80dd4@it.buh.tecnik93.com> In-Reply-To: <20051008003731.GA3447@k7.mavetju> References: <20051008003731.GA3447@k7.mavetju>
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On Sat, 8 Oct 2005 10:37:31 +1000 Edwin Groothuis <edwin@mavetju.org> wrote: > With the sending out results for the "Distfile Survey Checker", we > saw that certain ports get marked as unfetchable, while in reality > it were files which (for whatever reason) shouldn't have been fetched > at all: > > For example multimedia/pvr250 has one file, hcwPVRP2.sys, which > comes on the cdrom from the supplier and has to be copied into > /usr/ports/distfiles first. > > Another example, java/jdk15, requires the files > jdk-1_5_0-src-scsl.zip, jdk-1_5_0-bin-scsl.zip and > bsd-jdk15-patches-2.tar.bz2 which have to be downloaded manually. > > > If there was a variable, for example NOFETCHFILES a la IGNOREFILES, > port survey tools could keep this in mind, and the output of > "fetch-all-list" (or "fetch-list") would be more reliable too. The problem I see here is that I would like o continue to be able to use mi local mirror to fetch from this type of files for the other machines. -- IOnut Unregistered ;) FreeBSD "user" "Intellectual Property" is nowhere near as valuable as "Intellect"
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