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From: Bill Moran <wmoran@collaborativefusion.com>
To: Bjorn Nelson <o_sleep@belovedarctos.com>
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Subject: Re: "make fetch" refuses because dependencies aren't installed?
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In response to Bjorn Nelson <o_sleep@belovedarctos.com>:

> Bill,
> 
> On Aug 21, 2006, at 5:07 PM, Bill Moran wrote:
> 
> >
> > [root@ravage /usr/ports/www/bacula-web]# make fetch
> > This port requires the Apache Module or the CGI version of PHP, but  
> > you have
> > already installed a PHP port without them.
> > *** Error code 1
> >
> > This is on a dedicated fetch/NFS server.  It's not supposed to have
> > mod_php installed.  It would be pretty roundabout for me to install it
> > just for the purpose of fetching a package.
> >
> > The machines that mount the ports tree via NFS shares off this do not
> > have any access to the Internet for security reasons.  Thus we use  
> > this
> > machine to fetch packages into /usr/ports/distfiles, then we can build
> > them on the secured systems.
> >
> > It would make life easier if "make fetch" and "make fetch-recursive"
> > could ignore these kinds of dependency errors.  It seems to me that
> > "make fetch*" should _never_ fail because of dependencies.
> 
> I ran into the same problem and ended up making a script to do  
> concurrent make fetches (with a high water mark of 15 concurrent  
> fetches):
> http://www.onlamp.com/bsd/2006/04/13/examples/fetch_distfiles.sh
> 
> Shameless plug, but I detail setting this up on page 2 of:
> http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/bsd/2006/04/13/freebsd-build-system.html

Thanks, Bjorn.  In my case, I just looked up the site/filename and
manually fetched the file into /usr/ports/distfiles.  I was more
interested in the fact that this seems to be a bug in the ports.

-- 
Bill Moran
Collaborative Fusion Inc.