Getting distfiles for entire tree

Doug Barton dougb at FreeBSD.org
Fri Mar 17 21:27:35 UTC 2006


Scot Hetzel wrote:

> 'make fetch' on a port, checks if a depending port is installed.  If
> that port is not installed, then it will fetch the sources and install
> the depending port.

'make checksum' does not suffer from this limitation, and has the added
benefit of making sure that you got the right version of the file.

Doug

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