On Fri, 8 Sep 2000, Jim Wise wrote:

: I have this working fine.  However, as an HTTP POST is necessary to make
: this work, the `urlget' package is needed to download swing.
: 
: IIRC, once upon a time, this could have been specified by putting
: 
: 	FETCH_DEPENDS+=	urlget:../../www/urlget
: 
: in the package Makefile.  This is no longer possible.

This is beacuse fetch-based auto-building of packages was Very Bad, and that
anything that was "that special" needed manual fetching.  Remember that
"make fetch" is done recursively to fetch all the distfiles for
ftp.netbsd.org:/pub/NetBSD/packages/distfiles, for one.

You *could* add a pre-fetch kludge, you will need to do so in some kind of
conditional block that excludes recursive fetching.  I'm personally a bit
frightened about that, though.  :>

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