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authorrillig <rillig@pkgsrc.org>2006-06-30 09:41:39 +0000
committerrillig <rillig@pkgsrc.org>2006-06-30 09:41:39 +0000
commit98c529535bd28ce1a31f639d95eb5bb98d2cc21a (patch)
tree2c8eb01ea5c4868935027ad17a03d98de76cb2c0 /doc
parentc877c509fbc31ffb6627db9347bf12feb3fb0103 (diff)
downloadpkgsrc-98c529535bd28ce1a31f639d95eb5bb98d2cc21a.tar.gz
INTERACTIVE_STAGE should not be set to "fetch".
Diffstat (limited to 'doc')
-rw-r--r--doc/guide/files/fixes.xml17
1 files changed, 12 insertions, 5 deletions
diff --git a/doc/guide/files/fixes.xml b/doc/guide/files/fixes.xml
index e9ff1bec29a..d803316cd07 100644
--- a/doc/guide/files/fixes.xml
+++ b/doc/guide/files/fixes.xml
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-<!-- $NetBSD: fixes.xml,v 1.58 2006/06/29 11:41:04 rillig Exp $ -->
+<!-- $NetBSD: fixes.xml,v 1.59 2006/06/30 09:41:39 rillig Exp $ -->
<chapter id="fixes"> <?dbhtml filename="fixes.html"?>
<title>Making your package work</title>
@@ -46,12 +46,13 @@
</sect2>
<sect2 id="user-interaction">
- <title>User interaction</title>
+ <title>User interaction when building the package</title>
<para>Occasionally, packages require interaction from the user, and this can be
in a number of ways:</para>
<itemizedlist>
+
<listitem>
<para>When extracting the distfiles, some packages may ask for passwords.</para>
</listitem>
@@ -82,8 +83,15 @@
<programlisting>
INTERACTIVE_STAGE= configure install
</programlisting>
- </sect2>
+ <para>You should not use <varname>INTERACTIVE_STAGE</varname>
+ when fetching the distfiles needs to be done manually. See <xref
+ linkend="fixes.fetch"/> instead. The reason for this is that
+ fetching the distfiles is only needed once, where the phases in
+ <varname>INTERACTIVE_STAGE</varname> are needed everytime when
+ building the package.</para>
+
+ </sect2>
<sect2 id="handling-licenses">
<title>Handling licenses</title>
@@ -567,8 +575,7 @@ Changes to the PLIST
with the name of each file to download as an argument, expecting
it to output the URL of the directory from which to download
it. <filename role="pkg">graphics/ns-cult3d</filename> is an
- example of this usage.
-</para>
+ example of this usage.</para>
<para>If the download can't be automated, because the user must
submit personal information to apply for a password, or must pay