On Sun, Apr 26, 2020 at 04:42:06PM +0200, f.holop wrote: > i am having difficulties understanding this sentence, could someone > help me out? > > > FETCH_PACKAGES > If set, try to use as options to pkg_add(1) to install the > missing packages from PKG_PATH. For instance: > > make FETCH_PACKAGES= In order to satisfy dependencies of the port you're building, our framework usually goes ahead and builds them from the ports tree.
With FETCH_PACKAGES set, `pkg_add ${FETCH_PACKAGES} ...' is used to install prebuilt packages instead, that is to avoid building all dependencies from source. FETCH_PACKAGES=-Dsnap can be used to do ports development on snapshot and/or current.