Date: 01 Jul 2003 13:02:38 -0400 From: Serge Gagnon <gagnon__s@videotron.ca> To: Tom Hukins <tom@FreeBSD.org> Cc: ports@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: Selective use of USE_BZIP2 Message-ID: <1057078958.17969.2.camel@quenix.dyndns.org> In-Reply-To: <20030701145824.GA43860@eborcom.com> References: <20030701145824.GA43860@eborcom.com>
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On Tue, 2003-07-01 at 10:58, Tom Hukins wrote: > Is it possible to create a port where one (or more) distfiles is > compressed with bzip2 and one (or more) is compressed with gzip? > > Specifically, I would like to amend the pppoa port to fetch the > Sourceforge distfile as a .bz2 instead of a .gz without trying to > extract the proprietary distfile with bunzip2. > > So far, I haven't thought of a way to do this. Let me know if you > have any hints, but if not we can continue fetching the larger gzip > distfile. > > You can look at my ports "misc/xrmap" just as an example. However, there is certainly a better way to do this. Oh!, when you'll find this "better way", please communicate it to me ;) -- Serge Gagnon <gagnon__s@videotron.ca> Quebec, Qc, Canada GPG key available from: ftp://quenix.dyndns.org/keys/sg.asc
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