Date: Wed, 22 Sep 1999 22:28:50 -0400 (EDT) From: jack <jack@germanium.xtalwind.net> To: Christopher Michaels <ChrisMic@clientlogic.com> Cc: "FreeBSD Stable (E-mail)" <stable@FreeBSD.org> Subject: RE: make release grabbing all ports? Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.4.10.9909222156490.59920-100000@germanium.xtalwind.net> In-Reply-To: <6C37EE640B78D2118D2F00A0C90FCB4401105C92@site2s1>
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Today Christopher Michaels wrote:
> I _DID_ read that, and of course that is pointing to the
> /usr/ports/distfiles directory. Now, not every tarball that is in that dir
> is REQUIRED by the docports, unless I am totally misunderstanding what is
> meant by "DOCPORTS".
DOCPORTS is defined in the line above
# Set this .....
as textproc/docproj Those are the tarballs that it needs.
Those are the tarballs who's location you need to assign to
DISTFILES.
> So, it appears that it is not very smart about this and just arbitrarily
> grabs anything in it's path.
That's exactly what
if [ -d ${DISTFILES}/ ]; then \
cp -rp ${DISTFILES} ${CHROOTDIR}/usr/ports/distfiles; \
fi
does. "not very smart", now there's an understatement. :)
> So, since there appears to be no other solution, I am
> interpreting as meaning I need to make a separate dir and put
> the docport distfiles there.
Either that or have a really big CHROOTDIR.
> I apologize for hoping there was a simpler solution. I was looking for an
> option to just turn off the grabbing of ALL the distfiles. There apparently
> doesn't appear to be one.
make release has never been advertised as "simple".
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