Date: Wed, 28 Jan 1998 10:03:50 +1030 From: "Daniel O'Connor" <doconnor@gsoft.com.au> To: ac199@hwcn.org Cc: Warner Losh <imp@village.org>, ports@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: DRAFT: ports.7 Message-ID: <199801272333.KAA05822@cain.gsoft.com.au> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Tue, 27 Jan 1998 12:39:12 CDT." <Pine.BSF.3.96.980127114712.208A-100000@localhost>
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> > 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 | ---------------------------------------------------------------------
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