Selective use of USE_BZIP2

Serge Gagnon gagnon__s at videotron.ca
Tue Jul 1 09:31:18 PDT 2003


On Tue, 2003-07-01 at 10:58, Tom Hukins wrote:
> Is it possible to create a port where one (or more) distfiles is
> compressed with bzip2 and one (or more) is compressed with gzip?
> 
> Specifically, I would like to amend the pppoa port to fetch the
> Sourceforge distfile as a .bz2 instead of a .gz without trying to
> extract the proprietary distfile with bunzip2.
> 
> So far, I haven't thought of a way to do this.  Let me know if you
> have any hints, but if not we can continue fetching the larger gzip
> distfile.
> 
> You can look at my ports "misc/xrmap" just as an example. 
However, there is certainly a better way to do this.

Oh!, when you'll find this "better way", please communicate it to me ;)

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