From owner-freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG Sat Oct 8 02:36:30 2005 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.org Delivered-To: freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8EE5F16A41F for ; Sat, 8 Oct 2005 02:36:30 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from kris@obsecurity.org) Received: from elvis.mu.org (elvis.mu.org [192.203.228.196]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 513DD43D45 for ; Sat, 8 Oct 2005 02:36:30 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from kris@obsecurity.org) Received: from obsecurity.dyndns.org (CPE0050040655c8-CM00111ae02aac.cpe.net.cable.rogers.com [70.30.70.180]) by elvis.mu.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 301391A3C1A; Fri, 7 Oct 2005 19:36:30 -0700 (PDT) Received: by obsecurity.dyndns.org (Postfix, from userid 1000) id 7FFAE51288; Fri, 7 Oct 2005 22:36:28 -0400 (EDT) Date: Fri, 7 Oct 2005 22:36:28 -0400 From: Kris Kennaway To: Edwin Groothuis Message-ID: <20051008023628.GA57290@xor.obsecurity.org> References: <20051008003731.GA3447@k7.mavetju> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="OXfL5xGRrasGEqWY" Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20051008003731.GA3447@k7.mavetju> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.2.1i Cc: freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: Another administrative variable: NOFETCHFILES X-BeenThere: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Porting software to FreeBSD List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sat, 08 Oct 2005 02:36:30 -0000 --OXfL5xGRrasGEqWY Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Sat, Oct 08, 2005 at 10:37:31AM +1000, Edwin Groothuis 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: >=20 > 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. >=20 > 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. >=20 > 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. >=20 > Comments, suggestions? This is already covered by existing variables. e.g. if the port should not be fetched, IGNORE or NO_PACKAGE will be set. Kris --OXfL5xGRrasGEqWY Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.2 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQFDRzCsWry0BWjoQKURAgX6AKCrxtNdlJrunQsjXrGvVaSwFtUZBgCffPOm URcdpGHOuwxWReKTfrCD7h0= =xuFU -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --OXfL5xGRrasGEqWY--