Date: Wed, 12 Feb 2003 21:47:40 -0500 (EST) From: Dan Langille <dan@langille.org> To: ports@FreeBSD.org Subject: COMMENT, COMMENTFILE, and FreshPorts Message-ID: <20030212210109.J58298@undef.unixathome.org>
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I'm having trouble getting the COMMENT out of a port for FreshPorts. It's
been explained to me before, but I'm having difficulty dealing with it
now. I'm asking for advice please.
I notice the following in bsd.port.mk:
.if defined(COMMENT)
COMMENTFILE= ${WRKDIR}/.comment.${PKGNAME}
That's a workaround until everyone uses COMMENT. That's fine if all the
files are present on disk. However, sometimes I need to determine whether
or not the COMMENTFILE needs to be fetched before obtaining the comment.
To do that, I need to know whether or not a comment file exists. If the
fetch fails, I don't know if that's because it doesn't exist or because
the fetch just failed...
In short, should I assume that if COMMENTFILE returns something in the
work directory that no such commentfile exists?
Clues please, before I flounder and die...
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