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Date:      Fri, 20 Jul 2007 19:50:21 -0700
From:      Kent Stewart <kstewart@owt.com>
To:        freebsd-ports@freebsd.org
Cc:        ports@freebsd.org, Mark Linimon <linimon@lonesome.com>, Bill Moran <wmoran@collaborativefusion.com>
Subject:   Re: Overly restrictive checks in the make process
Message-ID:  <200707201950.21868.kstewart@owt.com>
In-Reply-To: <20070721023933.GB24593@soaustin.net>
References:  <20070720085855.99fb2109.wmoran@collaborativefusion.com> <20070720160749.54fec301.wmoran@collaborativefusion.com> <20070721023933.GB24593@soaustin.net>

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On Friday 20 July 2007, Mark Linimon wrote:
> On Fri, Jul 20, 2007 at 04:07:49PM -0400, Bill Moran wrote:
> > Even better would be for make to realize that it's only doing the
> > fetching, and do it anyway.
>
> That still doesn't help with the problem of a user who starts a 10MB
> download that won't work on his architecture or OS release.  The code
> is all the same.  This is the aggravation we are trying to prevent.
>

That still doesn't address the concern or improve the system downtime 
that a pkg_delete, make install allows. If you can't run something, you 
don't have any downtime but to have to pkg_delete before you start the 
tarball fetch can be really long on some ports.

Kent

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