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author | rillig <rillig@pkgsrc.org> | 2006-06-30 09:41:39 +0000 |
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committer | rillig <rillig@pkgsrc.org> | 2006-06-30 09:41:39 +0000 |
commit | 98c529535bd28ce1a31f639d95eb5bb98d2cc21a (patch) | |
tree | 2c8eb01ea5c4868935027ad17a03d98de76cb2c0 /doc | |
parent | c877c509fbc31ffb6627db9347bf12feb3fb0103 (diff) | |
download | pkgsrc-98c529535bd28ce1a31f639d95eb5bb98d2cc21a.tar.gz |
INTERACTIVE_STAGE should not be set to "fetch".
Diffstat (limited to 'doc')
-rw-r--r-- | doc/guide/files/fixes.xml | 17 |
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 |