Date: Wed, 22 Sep 1999 22:35:55 -0400 From: Christopher Michaels <ChrisMic@clientlogic.com> To: 'jack' <jack@germanium.xtalwind.net> Cc: "FreeBSD Stable (E-mail)" <stable@FreeBSD.org> Subject: RE: make release grabbing all ports? Message-ID: <6C37EE640B78D2118D2F00A0C90FCB4401105C94@site2s1>
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> From: jack [SMTP:jack@germanium.xtalwind.net]
> Sent: Wednesday, September 22, 1999 10:29 PM
> To: Christopher Michaels
> Cc: FreeBSD Stable (E-mail)
> Subject: RE: make release grabbing all ports?
>
> 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".
>
Point well taken. :)
Thanks for the info.
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