Date: Wed, 28 Jan 1998 12:58:05 +1030 From: "Daniel O'Connor" <doconnor@gsoft.com.au> To: Tim Vanderhoek <hoek@hwcn.org> Cc: "Daniel O'Connor" <doconnor@gsoft.com.au>, Warner Losh <imp@village.org>, ports@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: DRAFT: ports.7 Message-ID: <199801280228.MAA08304@cain.gsoft.com.au> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Tue, 27 Jan 1998 21:17:45 CDT." <Pine.GSO.3.96.980127211106.28748A-100000@james.hwcn.org>
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> > It is, because it will automatically compile the dependencies as well... > Only if you remembered to download those ports (pkg_add tries to > be a little bit smarter about dependency fetching, incidentally). > If bsd.port.mk can't find the portdir, it will go on happily > compiling your port until it fails due to a missing dependency. I am fairly sure that it will just recursivley install the dependancies, but I haven't tried it recently. > > > How likely is it that anyone will need to change FETCH_CMD? How > [...] > > Well, *I* do :) > Well, I guess that answers my question. :) Heh :) I suppose I could just change fetch so it uses http_proxy and ftp_proxy as well :) --------------------------------------------------------------------- |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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