On 2009/12/24 11:28, Benoit Chesneau wrote:
> On Thu, Dec 24, 2009 at 11:14 AM, Stuart Henderson <[email protected]> 
> wrote:
> > On 2009/12/24 10:13, Benoit Chesneau wrote:
> >> On Thu, Dec 24, 2009 at 10:09 AM, Landry Breuil <[email protected]> 
> >> wrote:
> >> > On Thu, Dec 24, 2009 at 09:59:14AM +0100, Benoit Chesneau wrote:
> >> >> I try to force download of bzip2 rather than the tar.gz by using
> >> >> USE_BZIP2=Yes in the Makefile but it still fetch the tar.gz.
> >> >
> >> > You need  EXTRACT_SUFX=.tar.bz2
> >> >
> >> > Landry
> >> >
> >>
> >> Thanks. I guess man may be updated then :)
> >
> > USE_BZIP2 is in the "Obsolete variables" section.
> >
> >
> Right. But imo if it's isn't recognize anymore,

It is still recognised, see infrastructure/mk/bsd.port.mk.

> it should be removed
> or at least a short text should link to the new way, without that the
> only information we have (if didn't miss it) , is that it is obsolete
> which doesn't mean "not used anymore".

The old way:

USE_BZIP2=Yes
EXTRACT_SUFX=.tar.bz2

The new way:

EXTRACT_SUFX=.tar.bz2

Both of these ways still work, but the old one is not needed any more
because the variable is set automatically when the distfile is .tar.bz2;
'obsolete' is perfectly correct here.

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