Date: 15 Aug 2000 13:29:42 -0700 From: asami@FreeBSD.ORG (Satoshi - Ports Wraith - Asami) To: Chris Piazza <cpiazza@jaxon.net> Cc: Kim Scarborough <sluggo@unknown.nu>, freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: How to fetch additional files? Message-ID: <vqcr97q2rpl.fsf@silvia.hip.berkeley.edu> In-Reply-To: Chris Piazza's message of "Sun, 13 Aug 2000 23:22:22 -0600" References: <Pine.BSF.4.21.0008132343190.27525-100000@jinx.unknown.nu> <20000813232222.A539@norn.ca.eu.org>
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* From: Chris Piazza <cpiazza@jaxon.net> * On Sun, Aug 13, 2000 at 11:51:18PM -0500, Kim Scarborough wrote: * > I'm currently working on a port that needs to download some text files in * > addition to the main tarball. What is the Approved way of doing this? The * > closest thing I could find was how to download additional patches, but * > that's not what these are. Currently, I have something like this; * > * > post-patch: * > cd $(WRKSRC)/lists;$(FETCH_CMD) ftp://bla.com/foo.gz * > cd $(WRKSRC)/lists;$(FETCH_CMD) ftp://bla.com/bar.gz * > * > This works, but it seems ugly to me (especially since it goes on like this * > for 15 lines). * > * > Any suggestions? Are there other ports with a similar issue? * * DISTFILES= ${PORTNAME}-${PORTVERSION}${EXTRACT_SUFX} file1 file2 \ * file3 file4 * * This will fetch them all at make fetch time. * * DIST_SUBDIR= portname * * This puts them all in a subdir in distfiles so things don't get cluttered. * * I think that's all that you should need... You probably also need EXTRACT_ONLY= ${PORTNAME}-${PORTVERSION}${EXTRACT_SUFX} or some such to prevent bsd.port.mk from trying to untar the text files. :) Satoshi To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-ports" in the body of the message
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