From owner-freebsd-ports Tue Jan 27 15:46:19 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id PAA14237 for freebsd-ports-outgoing; Tue, 27 Jan 1998 15:46:19 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from cain.gsoft.com.au (genesi.lnk.telstra.net [139.130.136.161]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id PAA14201 for ; Tue, 27 Jan 1998 15:46:07 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from doconnor@cain.gsoft.com.au) Received: from cain (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by cain.gsoft.com.au (8.8.8/8.6.9) with ESMTP id KAA05822; Wed, 28 Jan 1998 10:03:51 +1030 (CST) Message-Id: <199801272333.KAA05822@cain.gsoft.com.au> X-Mailer: exmh version 2.0zeta 7/24/97 To: ac199@hwcn.org cc: Warner Losh , ports@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: DRAFT: ports.7 In-reply-to: Your message of "Tue, 27 Jan 1998 12:39:12 CDT." Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Wed, 28 Jan 1998 10:03:50 +1030 From: "Daniel O'Connor" Sender: owner-freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org > > application source code compile and run on BSD. Installing an > > application is as simple as downloading the port, unpacking it and typing > > make in the port directory. The Makefile automatically fetches the > This isn't actually true. If you do this and there are any > dependencies, you will have to be aware of the dependencies. It is, because it will automatically compile the dependencies as well... > > Fetch all of the files needed to build this port from the site(s) > > listed in MASTER_SITES and PATCH_SITES. See FETCH_CMD, MASTER_SITES, > How likely is it that anyone will need to change FETCH_CMD? How > safe is it to change it, anyways... some of the ports define > FETCH_BEFORE_ARGS which might conflict with whatever FETCH_CMD is > redefined to. Well, *I* do :) Its wget on my system, because it looks nicer than fetch :) (It also takes http_proxy, and ftp_proxy variables to work out its proxy, which is "standard") --------------------------------------------------------------------- |Daniel O'Connor software and network engineer for Genesis Software | |http://www.gsoft.com.au | |The nice thing about standards is that there are so many of them to| |choose from. -- Andrew Tanenbaum | ---------------------------------------------------------------------