portlint's FATAL warnings

Christian Weisgerber naddy at mips.inka.de
Sat Jun 14 16:31:48 PDT 2003


Paul Chvostek <paul+fbsd at it.ca> wrote:

>  EXTRACT_ONLY=	${PORTNAME}-${PORTVERSION}${EXTRACT_SUFX}
>  MASTER_SITES+=	http://hostname/path/:1
>  DISTFILES+=	somefile.html:1

>  post-fetch:
> 	@test -f ${DISTDIR}/somefile.html || \
> 	${FETCH_CMD} -o ${DISTDIR} http://hostname/path/somefile.html

Both approaches (and I very much favor the first one) share a common
problem: somefile.html is unversioned.  This is bad.  What happens
when the file changes?  What happens to existing copies on distfile
mirrors?

-- 
Christian "naddy" Weisgerber                          naddy at mips.inka.de



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