Date: Sun, 13 Aug 2000 23:22:22 -0600 From: Chris Piazza <cpiazza@jaxon.net> To: Kim Scarborough <sluggo@unknown.nu> Cc: freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: How to fetch additional files? Message-ID: <20000813232222.A539@norn.ca.eu.org> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.4.21.0008132343190.27525-100000@jinx.unknown.nu>; from sluggo@unknown.nu on Sun, Aug 13, 2000 at 11:51:18PM -0500 References: <Pine.BSF.4.21.0008132343190.27525-100000@jinx.unknown.nu>
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On Sun, Aug 13, 2000 at 11:51:18PM -0500, Kim Scarborough wrote: > I'm currently working on a port that needs to download some text files in > addition to the main tarball. What is the Approved way of doing this? The > closest thing I could find was how to download additional patches, but > that's not what these are. Currently, I have something like this; > > post-patch: > cd $(WRKSRC)/lists;$(FETCH_CMD) ftp://bla.com/foo.gz > cd $(WRKSRC)/lists;$(FETCH_CMD) ftp://bla.com/bar.gz > > This works, but it seems ugly to me (especially since it goes on like this > for 15 lines). > > Any suggestions? Are there other ports with a similar issue? DISTFILES= ${PORTNAME}-${PORTVERSION}${EXTRACT_SUFX} file1 file2 \ file3 file4 This will fetch them all at make fetch time. DIST_SUBDIR= portname This puts them all in a subdir in distfiles so things don't get cluttered. I think that's all that you should need... -Chris -- cpiazza@jaxon.net | yawn.... cpiazza@FreeBSD.org | Calgary, AB, Canada To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-ports" in the body of the message
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