ports/92111: Document ALWAYS_KEEP_DISTFILES in bsd.port.mk

Erwin Lansing erwin at FreeBSD.org
Sat Jan 21 21:00:33 UTC 2006


>Number:         92111
>Category:       ports
>Synopsis:       Document ALWAYS_KEEP_DISTFILES in bsd.port.mk
>Confidential:   no
>Severity:       non-critical
>Priority:       low
>Responsible:    freebsd-ports-bugs
>State:          open
>Quarter:        
>Keywords:       
>Date-Required:
>Class:          change-request
>Submitter-Id:   current-users
>Arrival-Date:   Sat Jan 21 21:00:19 GMT 2006
>Closed-Date:
>Last-Modified:
>Originator:     Erwin Lansing
>Release:        FreeBSD 6.0-BETA4 i386
>Organization:
>Environment:
System: FreeBSD panda.droso.net 6.0-BETA4 FreeBSD 6.0-BETA4 #0: Sat Sep 17 21:01:22 CEST 2005 root at panda.droso.net:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/PANDA i386


>Description:

Add inline documentation of the ALWAYS_KEEP_DISTFILES that was added
to the pointyhat cluster for GPL compliance.

>How-To-Repeat:
>Fix:


--- always_keep_distfiles.diff begins here ---
Index: bsd.port.mk
===================================================================
RCS file: /home/pcvs/ports/Mk/bsd.port.mk,v
retrieving revision 1.520
diff -u -r1.520 bsd.port.mk
--- bsd.port.mk	21 Jan 2006 18:55:02 -0000	1.520
+++ bsd.port.mk	21 Jan 2006 20:27:47 -0000
@@ -120,6 +120,10 @@
 #				  ${MASTER_SITE_OVERRIDE})
 # EXTRACT_ONLY	- If set, a subset of ${DISTFILES} you want to
 #				  actually extract.
+# ALWAYS_KEEP_DISTFILES - If set, the package building cluster will save the distfiles along
+#				  with the packages. This may be required to comply with some
+#				  licenses, e.g. GPL in some cases.
+#				  Default: not set.
 #
 # (NOTE: by convention, the MAINTAINER entry (see above) should go here.)
 #
--- always_keep_distfiles.diff ends here ---


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