fetch-recursive broken? Is this a ports issue or just a problem with the PostgreSQL port?

[RW]

On Wed, 27 Dec 2006 08:13:18 -0800
Jeremy Chadwick <koitsu at FreeBSD.org> wrote:

> On Wed, Dec 27, 2006 at 10:24:19AM -0500, Bill Moran wrote:
> > In response to Shaun Amott <shaun at FreeBSD.org>:
> > 
> > > On Tue, Dec 26, 2006 at 05:39:50PM -0500, Bill Moran wrote:
> > > > 
> > > > Why should the fetch-recursive target care what's installed?
> > > > Hell, I just want the distfile on the server so I can install
> > > > it on other machines.
> > > 
> > > I agree. Perhaps we should automatically set NO_IGNORE and
> > > TRYBROKEN for the fetch-recursive target.
> > 
> > I'm getting lost in all the Makefiles trying to cobble together a
> > patch to submit.  Anyone familiar enough with the ports tree to do
> > so, or at least point me in the correct direction?
> 
> Bill,
> 
> This will probably require the expertise of someone who's familiar
> with the Mk/bsd.port.mk framework.  I can confirm what you're
> reporting, though (and have also wondered about it myself...)
> 

I'm not in any way an expert, but ...

bsd.database.mk is explicitly marking the port as IGNORE, as part of
it's WITH/USE logic.


Altering  Mk/bsd.port.mk to allow the fetching of distfiles for
ignored ports would break the handling of ports where the distfiles
must be fetched manually, such as the sun java distfiles.