From owner-freebsd-ports Tue Jan 27 18:29:04 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id SAA17208 for freebsd-ports-outgoing; Tue, 27 Jan 1998 18:29:04 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from cain.gsoft.com.au (genesi.lnk.telstra.net [139.130.136.161]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id SAA17065 for ; Tue, 27 Jan 1998 18:28:33 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from doconnor@cain.gsoft.com.au) Received: from cain (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by cain.gsoft.com.au (8.8.8/8.6.9) with ESMTP id MAA08304; Wed, 28 Jan 1998 12:58:05 +1030 (CST) Message-Id: <199801280228.MAA08304@cain.gsoft.com.au> X-Mailer: exmh version 2.0zeta 7/24/97 To: Tim Vanderhoek cc: "Daniel O'Connor" , Warner Losh , ports@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: DRAFT: ports.7 In-reply-to: Your message of "Tue, 27 Jan 1998 21:17:45 CDT." Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Wed, 28 Jan 1998 12:58:05 +1030 From: "Daniel O'Connor" Sender: owner-freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org > > It is, because it will automatically compile the dependencies as well... > Only if you remembered to download those ports (pkg_add tries to > be a little bit smarter about dependency fetching, incidentally). > If bsd.port.mk can't find the portdir, it will go on happily > compiling your port until it fails due to a missing dependency. I am fairly sure that it will just recursivley install the dependancies, but I haven't tried it recently. > > > How likely is it that anyone will need to change FETCH_CMD? How > [...] > > Well, *I* do :) > Well, I guess that answers my question. :) Heh :) I suppose I could just change fetch so it uses http_proxy and ftp_proxy as well :) --------------------------------------------------------------------- |Daniel O'Connor software and network engineer for Genesis Software | |http://www.gsoft.com.au | |The nice thing about standards is that there are so many of them to| |choose from. -- Andrew Tanenbaum | ---------------------------------------------------------------------