On Tue, 4 Oct 2011, David Cantrell wrote:
> I'm working on a local port where the source archive is not available via
> anything other than svn. I'm trying to use pre-fetch to see if a checkout of
> the release I want already exists in /usr/ports/distfiles and if not, check it
> out. I'm trying something like this:
Why don't you create a tarball of the checkout and host it?
>
>
> V = 1.2.3 # program version
> R = 4321 # svn ID
> DISTNAME = something-${V}-svn${R}
>
> pre-fetch:
> .if !exists(${DISTDIR}/${DISTNAME}.tar.gz)
> rm -rf ${WRKDIR}/svn
> mkdir -p ${WRKDIR}/svn
> ( cd ${WRKDIR}/svn ; ${FILESDIR}/checkout.sh ${V} ${R} )
> cp ${WRKDIR}/svn/${DISTNAME}.tar.gz ${DISTDIR}
> .endif
>
>
> The block inside the .if/.endif works fine. 'checkout.sh' is something I
> wrote to handle checking out the source for the specified version and svn ID.
> The problem I'm hitting is that !exists() is not working as I think it should.
>
> exists() ignores ${DISTDIR} entirely. It works fine if I do:
>
> .if !exists(/usr/ports/distfiles/${DISTNAME}.tar.gz)
>
> If I turn on debugging on make(1), I see that exists() searches the current
> directory, /usr/share/mk, and /etc for ${DISTNAME}.tar.gz.
>
> The man page lacks an example usage and nothing I see in
> /usr/ports/infrastructure/mk looks to be doing anything different from what
> I'm trying to do. There are absolute path checks in there too.
>
> Anyone have any ideas or suggestions?
>
>
--
Antoine
