Re: pkg/50163: minor sync: wip/dcc -> mail/dcc

[Petar Bogdanovic <petar%smokva.net@localhost>]

The following reply was made to PR pkg/50163; it has been noted by GNATS.

From: Petar Bogdanovic <petar%smokva.net@localhost>
To: Benny Siegert <bsiegert%gmail.com@localhost>
Cc: pkg-manager%netbsd.org@localhost, gnats-admin%netbsd.org@localhost, pkgsrc-bugs%netbsd.org@localhost
Subject: Re: pkg/50163: minor sync: wip/dcc -> mail/dcc
Date: Sat, 26 Sep 2015 20:25:46 +0200

 On Sat, Sep 26, 2015 at 06:05:01PM +0000, Benny Siegert wrote:
 > 
 >  > +CONFIGURE_ARGS+= --with-fetch-cmd=${TOOLS_PATH.ftp:Q}
 >  
 >  What does that do? When does it fetch things using ftp? At runtime, or
 >  during the build of the package?
 
 At runtime.
 
 configure tries to determine the availability of one of four fetch
 commands know to the author {fetch,curl,wget,ftp}.  It is then
 hard-wired into its custom upgrade script.
 
 Without this and depending on what platform configure was issued on, the
 custom upgrade script will end up containing references to WRKDIR.
 
 The question about how useful a custom upgrade script is in context with
 pkgsrc is a different issue.  Making it "work" (where running the optional
 script implies messing up the pkgsrc installation) was a minor concession
 to the author.
 
 		Petar