Subject: Re: pkgsrc - how to use (some, not all) sources directly from hdd?
To: Zbigniew Baniewski <zb@ispid.com.pl>
From: Geert Hendrickx <ghen@NetBSD.org>
List: netbsd-users
Date: 11/20/2006 14:03:40
On Mon, Nov 20, 2006 at 01:57:52PM +0100, Zbigniew Baniewski wrote:
> On Sun, Nov 19, 2006 at 10:47:54PM -0500, Kevin Brunelle wrote:
> > Just move it to /usr/pkgsrc/distfiles (or whereever pkgsrc is located for 
> > you).  It will then be found and everything will proceed as expected.  I am 
> > not sure there is a method to do exactly what you're describing (leaving the 
> > file where you downloaded it) and believe it would just complicate things.
> 
> The problem is, that jdk14 isn't in "normal" pkgsrc - it's from s.c.
> "pkgsrc-wip", which doesn't have any "distfiles" sub-dir in it's tree.
> Yes, I created /usr/pkgsrc/distfiles "manually", copied there the source
> files, and... it is still searching the Internet.

What does "make show-var VARNAME=DISTDIR" say?  Put (or symlink) them there.

	Geert