Another administrative variable: NOFETCHFILES

Kris Kennaway kris at obsecurity.org
Fri Oct 7 19:36:30 PDT 2005


On Sat, Oct 08, 2005 at 10:37:31AM +1000, Edwin Groothuis wrote:
> With the sending out results for the "Distfile Survey Checker", we
> saw that certain ports get marked as unfetchable, while in reality
> it were files which (for whatever reason) shouldn't have been fetched
> at all:
> 
> For example multimedia/pvr250 has one file, hcwPVRP2.sys, which
> comes on the cdrom from the supplier and has to be copied into
> /usr/ports/distfiles first.
> 
> Another example, java/jdk15, requires the files jdk-1_5_0-src-scsl.zip,
> jdk-1_5_0-bin-scsl.zip and bsd-jdk15-patches-2.tar.bz2 which have
> to be downloaded manually.
> 
> If there was a variable, for example NOFETCHFILES a la IGNOREFILES,
> port survey tools could keep this in mind, and the output of
> "fetch-all-list" (or "fetch-list") would be more reliable too.
> 
> Comments, suggestions?

This is already covered by existing variables.  e.g. if the port
should not be fetched, IGNORE or NO_PACKAGE will be set.

Kris
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