Ports disconnected from category Makefiles

[Ion-Mihai Tetcu]

On Tue, 9 Aug 2005 13:58:46 -0400
Kris Kennaway <kris at obsecurity.org> wrote:

> On Tue, Aug 09, 2005 at 08:55:22PM +0300, Ion-Mihai Tetcu wrote:
> > On Tue, 09 Aug 2005 13:39:42 -0400
> > Gregg Cooper <bsdcrank at squbes.com> wrote:
> > 
> > > Kris Kennaway wrote:
> > > >>... what is a "more better" way to snatch as many ports as
> > > >>possible?
> > > > 
> > > > Use make -k
> > > 
> > > Excellent ... I was churning over in ports/Mk/bsd.port.mk
> > > thinking it would hold the key and never even thought to go look
> > > at make ... thanks!
> > 
> > And if you really want to grab everything possible use:
> > make -k -DDISABLE_VULNERABILITIES -DTRY_BROKEN
> > 
> > It also might make sense to run a few parallel fetch jobs;
> > especially on a slower/busy machine there's pretty much time spent
> > "non-fetching".
> 
> I was going to suggest this but you'll run the risk of collisions
> between some of the ports that download the same distfiles, which may
> lead to corruption.

True; after the fetch is finished run a make checksum (this is a good
idea for non-parallel fetch also).


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