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Date:      Sun, 9 Mar 2014 18:54:50 +0100
From:      =?ISO-8859-1?Q?Bernhard_Fr=F6hlich?= <decke@bluelife.at>
To:        Rainer Hurling <rhurlin@gwdg.de>
Cc:        "ports@freebsd.org Ports" <ports@freebsd.org>
Subject:   Re: RedPorts and restricted distfiles
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Am 09.03.2014 18:33 schrieb "Rainer Hurling" <rhurlin@gwdg.de>:
>
> I am trying to test an update of astro/xephem, which has a restricted
> distfile.
>
> I tried to svn commit the source file as
> 'distfiles/xephem-3.7.6.tar.gz', but without luck.
>
> The RedPorts script seem to expect the distfile at 'tmp/distfiles'. I
> got this error message:
>
> xephem-3.7.6 because of licensing restrictions, you must manually fetch
> xephem-3.7.6.tar.gz from http://www.clearskyinstitute.com/xephem/, place
> it in /tmp/distfiles and then run make again.
>
>
> Is there any way, one can test ports with restricted distfiles on
RedPorts?
>
> Any help is really appreciated.
>
> Rainer Hurling

The easiest way to test it is to remove/comment the restricted line and/or
put the file on an additional temporary mirror. Tinderbox uses a distfile
cache that is shared per machine so it's a bit complicated to inject
distfiles there from your build.



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