From owner-freebsd-ports Tue Jun 12 5:15:29 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Received: from iraun1.uka.de (iraun1.uka.de [129.13.10.90]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A9C3737B407 for ; Tue, 12 Jun 2001 05:15:25 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from esk@ira.uka.de) Received: from i30nb2.ira.uka.de by iraun1 (PP) with ESMTP; Tue, 12 Jun 2001 14:14:50 +0200 Received: (from esk@localhost) by i30nb2.ira.uka.de (8.11.2/8.11.3) id f5CCF3S31116; Tue, 12 Jun 2001 14:15:03 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from esk) From: Espen Skoglund MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-ID: <15142.1991.349827.268138@i30nb2.ira.uka.de> Date: Tue, 12 Jun 2001 14:15:03 +0200 (CEST) To: Rasputin Cc: freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: how do I grab multiple files? In-Reply-To: <20010612130554.A91656@shaft.techsupport.co.uk> References: <20010612130554.A91656@shaft.techsupport.co.uk> X-Mailer: VM 6.75 under 21.1 (patch 12) "Channel Islands" XEmacs Lucid Sender: owner-freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org [Rasputin ] > Hi there, > I'm writing a port for a development library that doesn't come with > any documentation. However, there's a separate textfile which > describes the formats the library uses. I want to install that with > the contents of the main tarball. > The port itself builds and installs/deinstalls cleanly, even > portlint is happy with it :) > Is there a way to do this without creating another port as a > dependency (we're only talking about a 5k textfile here)? > i.e. how do you tel la port to download more than one file? As the porters handbook probably has told you, it is possible to specify multiple files in DISTFILES. (That's probably the reason why it's called DISTFILES and not DISTFILE btw.) eSk To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-ports" in the body of the message