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Date:      Fri, 5 Jan 2001 14:29:58 +0300 (MSK)
From:      Ilya Martynov <m_ilya@agava.com>
To:        Peter Pentchev <roam@orbitel.bg>
Cc:        <freebsd-ports@freebsd.org>
Subject:   Re: Is there any reason for FETCH_BEFORE_ARGS?
Message-ID:  <Pine.BSF.4.31.0101051416230.52070-100000@juil.domain>
In-Reply-To: <20010105124725.D10329@ringworld.oblivion.bg>

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PP>
PP> > Except one port news/dnews all others actually doesn't need
PP> > FETCH_BEFORE_ARGS (according man page of fetch). And I'm not sure if it is
PP> > needed even for news/dnews. Maybe just remove FETCH_BEFORE_ARGS from ports
PP> > Makefiles?
PP>
PP> I've asked this question before, the answer was that FETCH_BEFORE_ARGS
PP> is still needed for 3.x's fetch(1).  The fact is, all ports which
PP> specify FETCH_BEFORE_ARGS should make this conditional on FreeBSD's
PP> version.
PP>
PP> In your specific case, just put FETCH_BEFORE_ARGS=''  on make's cmdline;
PP> the Makefile overrides /etc/make.conf settings, so you can't just stick
PP> it there :(

Moreover some Makefiles has FETCH_BEFORE_ARGS+= instead FETCH_BEFORE_ARGS=
so it is not possible to overide this settings at all :(

After some thinking I've came up with such question: is it correct to use
FETCH_BEFORE_ARGS at all? For example I have two URLs in
MASTER_SITE_OVERRIDE in my make.conf. fetch(1) will first try to download
files from there. Even if I have old version of fetch(1) it will not need
(probably) -t or -b switches with these URLs. Switches specified in
FETCH_BEFORE_ARGS should be actually set individually for each URL in port
Makefile (if they are needed).

-- 
Ilya Martynov
AGAVA Software Company, http://www.agava.com



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