How to maintain a manual download in a download restricted port?

[O. Hartmann]

Am 09/24/12 14:49, schrieb Борис Самородов:
> 24.09.2012 16:29, O. Hartmann пишет:
>> Am 09/24/12 12:21, schrieb Chris Rees:
>>> On 24 Sep 2012 11:12, "O. Hartmann" <ohartman at zedat.fu-berlin.de> wrote:
>>>>
>>>> Hello.
>>>>
>>>> I deal with an "in spe" port, which does provide the source tarball
>>>> from
>>>> the website via a PHP interface - so, no automatic fetch() seems to be
>>>> possible.
>>>>
>>>> To provide the port in due time, I'd like to ask the people here how to
>>>> manage in the port's "Makefile" to refer the user to download manually
>>>> the sources, place them in ${DISTDIR} and restart installation.
>>>>
>>>> I tried to have my eyes on some ports like java/jdk16, but, to be
>>>> honest, the Makefile is not very convenient for my fast eyes to read
>>>> and
>>>> it seems there are many workarounds which are not necessary for a
>>>> simple
>>>> port.
>>>>
>>>> Maybe one of you is willing to answer me. Is there an elegant, BSDish
>>>> way to provide the message and stop doing the automatic fetch? I
>>>> couldn't find something in the "Porter's Handbook", but sometimes I'm
>>>> blind ;-) If there is a statement on that subject in the handbook,
>>>> please do not hesitate to refer to the section.
>>>>
>>>
>>> http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en/books/porters-handbook/book.html#AEN3090
>>>
>>> This appears to be a new feature- I didn't know about it either :)
>>>
>>> Chris
>>>
>>
>>
>> Thank you.
>>
>> I tried - but failed again.
> 
> Hm, this is not my e-mail you replied to. I suggested a little bit
> different section. It was 6.2.6. "Examples".
> 
>> When setting those variables to:
>>
>> NOFETCHFILES=           ${DISTFILES}
>>
>> or
>>
>> RESTRICTED_FILES=       ${DISTFILES}
>>
>> and having
>> .if !exists(${DISTDIR}/${DISTNAME}${EXTRACT_SUFX})
>> IGNORE= \n
>> IGNORE+= Due to download restrictions please download the source
>> IGNORE+= tarball ${DISTNAME}${EXTRACT_SUFX} manually
>> IGNORE+= and place the it in ${DISTDIR} and start again.
>> IGNORE+= \n
>> .endif
>>
>> Somehow I expect that setting those "RESTRICTED" or "NOFETCHFILES"
>> variables will make the script automatically not fetching anything - but
>> whenever I start the build via "make all", the first step is that the
>> DISTFILES are getting fetched - or tried to get fetched. This is what I
>> need to avaoid completely.
> 
> And here is my first question: have you read the section 6.2.6. to
> the end? I.e. have you noticed the mandatory recommendation
> "Note that this stanza must be preceded by..."?

Of course, I did NOT read the section to its end although it is very
short :-(

Sorry.

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