Date: Fri, 7 Oct 2005 22:36:28 -0400 From: Kris Kennaway <kris@obsecurity.org> To: Edwin Groothuis <edwin@mavetju.org> Cc: freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: Another administrative variable: NOFETCHFILES Message-ID: <20051008023628.GA57290@xor.obsecurity.org> In-Reply-To: <20051008003731.GA3447@k7.mavetju> References: <20051008003731.GA3447@k7.mavetju>
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--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--
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