Date: Sat, 03 Dec 2011 23:21:54 +0100 From: Rene Ladan <r.c.ladan@gmail.com> To: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Subject: Re: CFR: add an example of manually fetching distfiles to Porter's Handbook Message-ID: <4EDAA102.30100@gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <20111202033058.GA25481@lonesome.com> References: <20111202033058.GA25481@lonesome.com>
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On 02-12-2011 04:30, Mark Linimon wrote:
> A few people are getting "creative" again on ways to express this common
> need. AFAIK the following is the best way to do it. What do people think?
>
> Index: book.sgml
> ===================================================================
> RCS file: /home/FreeBSD/dcvs/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/porters-handbook/book.sgml,v
> retrieving revision 1.1119
> diff -u -r1.1119 book.sgml
> --- book.sgml 4 Nov 2011 14:28:43 -0000 1.1119
> +++ book.sgml 1 Dec 2011 22:26:38 -0000
> @@ -4698,6 +4698,19 @@
> <filename>/usr/ports/LEGAL</filename> for every listed distribution
> file, describing exactly what the restriction entails.</para>
> </sect2>
> +
> + <sect2>
> + <title>Examples</title>
> +
> + <para>The preferred way to state "the distfiles for this port must be
> + fetched manually" is as follows:<programlisting>
> +.if !exists(${DISTDIR}/${DISTNAME}${EXTRACT_SUFX})
> +IGNORE= "may not be redistributed because of licensing reasons. Please visit <replaceable>some-website</replaceable> to accept their license and download ${DISTFILES} into ${DISTDIR}"
> +.endif</programlisting></para>
> +
> + <para>This both informs the user, and sets the proper metadata on
> + the user's machine for use by automated programs.</para>
> + </sect2>
> </sect1>
>
> <sect1 id="building">
>
What about turning it into a bsd.<somefile>.mk target, e.g. :
WEBSITE=some-website
DISTFILES=same-as-usual
MANUAL_DISTFILES=distfile1 distfile2 ...
Regards,
René
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