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Date:      Sat, 26 Jan 2002 13:49:44 -0800
From:      Kris Kennaway <kris@obsecurity.org>
To:        Joerg Wunsch <j@uriah.heep.sax.de>, Kris Kennaway <kris@obsecurity.org>, cvs-committers@FreeBSD.org, cvs-all@FreeBSD.org
Subject:   Re: cvs commit: ports/devel/avr-libc/files README.libdoc avr-lib.pdf
Message-ID:  <20020126134944.B18593@xor.obsecurity.org>
In-Reply-To: <20020126223027.I4785@uriah.heep.sax.de>; from j@uriah.heep.sax.de on Sat, Jan 26, 2002 at 10:30:27PM %2B0100
References:  <200201261759.g0QHxuH09971@freefall.freebsd.org> <20020126151342.V18609@squall.waterspout.com> <20020126220447.H4785@uriah.heep.sax.de> <20020126131446.A18271@xor.obsecurity.org> <20020126223027.I4785@uriah.heep.sax.de>

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On Sat, Jan 26, 2002 at 10:30:27PM +0100, Joerg Wunsch wrote:
> As Kris Kennaway wrote:
>=20
> > > > Uh.  What is a PDF doing in the ports tree?
> > >=20
> > > Give me a generic way to fetch a non-distfile non-patchfile,
> > > and i'll use it.
> >=20
> > If there's truly no canonical place for it in the ports framework (I'm
> > not convinced),
>=20
> We've been discussing it by the time i created the port, and there was
> no solution to it.  If there's a way now to fetch additional files
> /and/ redistribute them in the distfiles hierarchy (so they are
> mirrored, properly checksummed etc.), i'll happily use it.

I missed this discussion.  Could you summarize why you can't just
treat it like a distfile?  This is what's usually done with doc
distributions, possibly with an IGNOREFILES if they're too annoying to
keep updated.

Kris

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