CFR: add an example of manually fetching distfiles to Porter's
Handbook
Chris Rees
crees at freebsd.org
Sun Dec 4 09:14:52 UTC 2011
On 4 December 2011 09:09, Chris Rees <crees at freebsd.org> wrote:
> On 2 December 2011 03:30, Mark Linimon <linimon at lonesome.com> wrote:
>> A few people are getting "creative" again on ways to express this common
>> need. AFAIK the following is the best way to do it. What do people think?
>>
>> mcl
>>
>> Index: book.sgml
>> ===================================================================
>> RCS file: /home/FreeBSD/dcvs/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/porters-handbook/book.sgml,v
>> retrieving revision 1.1119
>> diff -u -r1.1119 book.sgml
>> --- book.sgml 4 Nov 2011 14:28:43 -0000 1.1119
>> +++ book.sgml 1 Dec 2011 22:26:38 -0000
>> @@ -4698,6 +4698,19 @@
>> <filename>/usr/ports/LEGAL</filename> for every listed distribution
>> file, describing exactly what the restriction entails.</para>
>> </sect2>
>> +
>> + <sect2>
>> + <title>Examples</title>
>> +
>> + <para>The preferred way to state "the distfiles for this port must be
>> + fetched manually" is as follows:<programlisting>
>> +.if !exists(${DISTDIR}/${DISTNAME}${EXTRACT_SUFX})
>> +IGNORE= "may not be redistributed because of licensing reasons. Please visit <replaceable>some-website</replaceable> to accept their license and download ${DISTFILES} into ${DISTDIR}"
>> +.endif</programlisting></para>
>> +
>> + <para>This both informs the user, and sets the proper metadata on
>> + the user's machine for use by automated programs.</para>
>> + </sect2>
>> </sect1>
>>
>> <sect1 id="building">
>
> Apart from the quoted IGNORE, great :)
Ah, also we need to add .include <bsd.port.pre.mk> before it, so it
knows where DISTDIR is.
Chris
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