Re: Do not uncompress a distfile

[Brook Milligan <brook%nmsu.edu@localhost>]

> On May 21, 2021, at 4:15 PM, Roland Illig <roland.illig%gmx.de@localhost> wrote:
> 
> What about this brute force approach?
> 
> do-extract:
>         cp ${DISTFILES:%=${_DISTDIR}/%} ${WRKDIR}/
> 
> Accessing the internal _DISTDIR is not elegant, but if this approach works, we can think of a more elegant variant afterwards.

That does work.  Thanks.  

I agree that it would be nice to be able to specify this without groveling in the internal variables.  What is the best way to accomplish that?

Cheers,
Brook