On 24 Sep 2012 11:12, "O. Hartmann" <[email protected]> wrote: > > Hello. > > I deal with an "in spe" port, which does provide the source tarball from > the website via a PHP interface - so, no automatic fetch() seems to be > possible. > > To provide the port in due time, I'd like to ask the people here how to > manage in the port's "Makefile" to refer the user to download manually > the sources, place them in ${DISTDIR} and restart installation. > > I tried to have my eyes on some ports like java/jdk16, but, to be > honest, the Makefile is not very convenient for my fast eyes to read and > it seems there are many workarounds which are not necessary for a simple > port. > > Maybe one of you is willing to answer me. Is there an elegant, BSDish > way to provide the message and stop doing the automatic fetch? I > couldn't find something in the "Porter's Handbook", but sometimes I'm > blind ;-) If there is a statement on that subject in the handbook, > please do not hesitate to refer to the section. >
http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en/books/porters-handbook/book.html#AEN3090 This appears to be a new feature- I didn't know about it either :) Chris _______________________________________________ [email protected] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-ports To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[email protected]"
