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List:       openbsd-bugs
Subject:    Re: ports/3326: Fetching packages is harder than needed
From:       Sam Smith <S () mSmith ! net>
Date:       2003-07-28 18:25:02
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The following reply was made to PR ports/3326; it has been noted by GNATS.

From: Sam Smith <S@mSmith.net>
To: gnats@cvs.openbsd.org, bugs@cvs.openbsd.org
Cc:  
Subject: Re: ports/3326: Fetching packages is harder than needed
Date: Mon, 28 Jul 2003 18:59:56 +0100 (BST)

 On Sat, 26 Jul 2003, Sam Smith wrote:
 > On Fri, 20 Jun 2003, Gnats wrote:
 > > >Category:       ports
 > > >Responsible:    bugs
 > > >Synopsis:       Fetching packages is harder than needed
 > > >Arrival-Date:   Fri Jun 20 21:20:02 GMT 2003
 
 here's a diff for the relevant man pages.
 
 Prompting from  nick@ jolan@
 
 
 
 Index: share/man/man7/packages.7
 ===================================================================
 RCS file: /library/OpenBSD/src/share/man/man7/packages.7,v
 retrieving revision 1.17
 diff -u -r1.17 packages.7
 --- share/man/man7/packages.7	9 Jul 2003 20:30:43 -0000	1.17
 +++ share/man/man7/packages.7	26 Jul 2003 23:56:41 -0000
 @@ -46,6 +46,15 @@
  a package will also hold a description, a complete list of the files
  installed by the package, a list of prerequisite packages, along with
  shell script fragments to finish the actual installation.
 +.Pp
 +It is possible to install prebuilt packages from the ftp sites, via
 +the
 +.Ox
 +.Xr ports 7
 +tree by specifying the flag
 +.Dl FROM_PACKAGE=yes
 +when running
 +.Dl make install
  .Sh SECURITY CAVEAT
  The packages are not as thoroughly audited as the main
  .Ox
 Index: share/man/man5/bsd.port.mk.5
 ===================================================================
 RCS file: /library/OpenBSD/src/share/man/man5/bsd.port.mk.5,v
 retrieving revision 1.112
 diff -u -r1.112 bsd.port.mk.5
 --- share/man/man5/bsd.port.mk.5	18 Jul 2003 18:35:11 -0000	1.112
 +++ share/man/man5/bsd.port.mk.5	27 Jul 2003 00:13:46 -0000
 @@ -814,6 +814,14 @@
  Canonical list of flavors being set for the current build, dash-separated.
  See
  .Ev FULLPKGNAME .
 +.It Ev FROM_PACKAGE
 +User settings.
 +Attempt to fetch and install the prebuilt packages required from the
 +sites listed in
 +.Ev MASTER_SITE_OPENBSD_PACKAGES
 +.It Ev FROM_SOURCE
 +User settings.
 +Override the use of FROM_PACKAGE and build from source.
  .It Ev FTP_PACKAGES
  User settings.
  Base location where packages suitable for ftp (see
 @@ -932,6 +940,11 @@
  The make program that is used for building the port.
  Set to ${MAKE} or ${GMAKE} depending on USE_GMAKE.
  Read-only.
 +.It Ev MASTER_SITE_OPENBSD_PACKAGES
 +List of the
 +.Ox
 +mirror sites which hold both -release and snapshot package
 +builds.
  .It Ev MASTER_SITES
  List of primary location from which distfiles and patchfiles are retrieved.
  See the
 @@ -1254,6 +1267,11 @@
  Set to
  .Sq flavored
  if distinct flavors of the port may share a common source tree.
 +.It Ev SNAPSHOT
 +User setting. Used in conjunction with
 +.Ev FROM_PACKAGE
 +to install using the snapshot package available from
 +.EV MASTER_SITE_OPENBSD_PACKAGES
  .It Ev SUBPACKAGE
  Set to the sub package suffix when building a package in a multi-package port.
  Read-only.

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