Re: explanation of FETCH_PACKAGES in ports(7)

2020-04-27 Thread Ingo Schwarze
Hi Marc, Marc Espie wrote on Mon, Apr 27, 2020 at 10:20:13AM +0200: > Let's try anyway. Looks good to me except for the nits below. Yours, Ingo > Index: ports.7 > === > RCS file: /cvs/src/share/man/man7/ports.7,v > retrieving r

Re: explanation of FETCH_PACKAGES in ports(7)

2020-04-27 Thread Marc Espie
On Sun, Apr 26, 2020 at 06:00:55PM +0100, Stuart Henderson wrote: > On 2020/04/26 18:28, f.holop wrote: > > Stuart Henderson - Sun, 26 April 2020 at 17:11:21 > > > > thank you for the explanations. i am afraid none of this comes across > > > > really from the man page as it is formulated now. but

Re: explanation of FETCH_PACKAGES in ports(7)

2020-04-26 Thread Ross L Richardson
> On 2020-04-27, at 02:11 , Stuart Henderson wrote: > [...] > it doesn't come across at all. diffs welcome ;) > [...] The description in bsd.port.mk(5) is significantly more detailed than that in ports(7). Ross

Re: explanation of FETCH_PACKAGES in ports(7)

2020-04-26 Thread Stuart Henderson
On 2020/04/26 18:28, f.holop wrote: > Stuart Henderson - Sun, 26 April 2020 at 17:11:21 > > > thank you for the explanations. i am afraid none of this comes across > > > really from the man page as it is formulated now. but i am not a native > > > speaker, true. > > > > it doesn't come across at

Re: explanation of FETCH_PACKAGES in ports(7)

2020-04-26 Thread f.holop
Stuart Henderson - Sun, 26 April 2020 at 17:11:21 > > thank you for the explanations. i am afraid none of this comes across > > really from the man page as it is formulated now. but i am not a native > > speaker, true. > > it doesn't come across at all. diffs welcome ;) do you really want diffs

Re: explanation of FETCH_PACKAGES in ports(7)

2020-04-26 Thread Stuart Henderson
On 2020/04/26 18:04, f.holop wrote: > Stuart Henderson - Sun, 26 April 2020 at 16:29:30 > > On 2020/04/26 16:42, f.holop wrote: > > > hi, > > > > > > i am having difficulties understanding this sentence, could someone > > > help me out? > > > > > > > > > FETCH_PACKAGES > > >

Re: explanation of FETCH_PACKAGES in ports(7)

2020-04-26 Thread f.holop
Stuart Henderson - Sun, 26 April 2020 at 16:29:30 > On 2020/04/26 16:42, f.holop wrote: > > hi, > > > > i am having difficulties understanding this sentence, could someone > > help me out? > > > > > > FETCH_PACKAGES > >If set, try to use as options to pkg_add(1) to insta

Re: explanation of FETCH_PACKAGES in ports(7)

2020-04-26 Thread Stuart Henderson
On 2020/04/26 16:42, f.holop wrote: > hi, > > i am having difficulties understanding this sentence, could someone > help me out? > > > FETCH_PACKAGES >If set, try to use as options to pkg_add(1) to install the >missing packages from PKG_PATH. For ins

Re: explanation of FETCH_PACKAGES in ports(7)

2020-04-26 Thread Klemens Nanni
On Sun, Apr 26, 2020 at 04:42:06PM +0200, f.holop wrote: > i am having difficulties understanding this sentence, could someone > help me out? > > > FETCH_PACKAGES >If set, try to use as options to pkg_add(1) to install the >missing packages from PKG_PA

explanation of FETCH_PACKAGES in ports(7)

2020-04-26 Thread f.holop
hi, i am having difficulties understanding this sentence, could someone help me out? FETCH_PACKAGES If set, try to use as options to pkg_add(1) to install the missing packages from PKG_PATH. For instance: make FETCH_PACKAGES=