On Thu, Dec 24, 2009 at 12:22 PM, Stuart Henderson <[email protected]> wrote:
> 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 only information we have (if didn't miss it) , is that it is obsolete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.
>
>

ok thought USE_BZIP2 would be enough, my fault. Thanks for the info.

- benoît

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