Date: Thu, 28 May 1998 02:41:00 -0400 From: Dave Chapeskie <dchapes@ddm.on.ca> To: freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG Cc: Matthew Hunt <mph@pobox.com> Subject: Re: port makefile problem: DISTFILES in multiple directories Message-ID: <19980528024100.56064@ddm.on.ca> In-Reply-To: <19980527235517.A1349@mstar.astro.psu.edu>; from Matthew Hunt on Wed, May 27, 1998 at 11:55:17PM -0400 References: <19980527095202.15064@ddm.on.ca> <19980527124049.A2177@flarn.dyn.ml.org> <19980527222211.28444@ddm.on.ca> <19980527235517.A1349@mstar.astro.psu.edu>
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On Wed, May 27, 1998 at 11:55:17PM -0400, Matthew Hunt wrote: > > That means that there will be an absolute minimum of 6 failures (in > > my case the best I can do is 7 failures). I find that 'solution' > > unacceptable and dismissed it immediately. > > Why? They should be fast failures. Failures of this type are typical > and expected in circumstances like this one. Mostly on principle. I know what the files are and how to get them so why should I bother an FTP server halfway across the world with queries I know will fail? > > Before I [do] that I'd go through the effort to repackage the stuff > > and make my own tarball. > > If you don't like the solution above, I would suggest > taking the eight distfiles and putting them in a single > MASTER_SITE. If you do not have a place handy, I can put them in > http://www.freebsd.org/~mph/distfiles for you. Thanks for the offer. I do have a place I can put things but instead of putting the existing files there I'd first repackage them into a single tarball. Currently I have to do a lot of work in a do-extract target that I don't like. Ie, some of the files are *.tgz, some *.tar.gz, some *.zip. The *.zip archives contain files without any extentions files yet are referred to with extensions (ie one file is "header" which is included into other files as "header.h") also there are no make files or anything. I'm thinking I'll hold off submitting the port and complain to the original author and see if he's willing to put my repackaged tarball up at the same site (or convince him to fix things himself). [So if anyone happens to be interested in a port of "Inform: A Infocom interactive story compiler" (to go along with the recently committed games/frotz interpreter) and doesn't want to wait, you should ask me to make my current port available or ask me to send it to you directly.] -- Dave Chapeskie <dchapes@ddm.on.ca>, DDM Consulting To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-ports" in the body of the message
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