How to maintain a manual download in a download restricted port?

[Chris Rees]

On 24 Sep 2012 11:12, "O. Hartmann" <ohartman at zedat.fu-berlin.de> wrote:
>
> Hello.
>
> I deal with an "in spe" port, which does provide the source tarball from
> the website via a PHP interface - so, no automatic fetch() seems to be
> possible.
>
> To provide the port in due time, I'd like to ask the people here how to
> manage in the port's "Makefile" to refer the user to download manually
> the sources, place them in ${DISTDIR} and restart installation.
>
> I tried to have my eyes on some ports like java/jdk16, but, to be
> honest, the Makefile is not very convenient for my fast eyes to read and
> it seems there are many workarounds which are not necessary for a simple
> port.
>
> Maybe one of you is willing to answer me. Is there an elegant, BSDish
> way to provide the message and stop doing the automatic fetch? I
> couldn't find something in the "Porter's Handbook", but sometimes I'm
> blind ;-) If there is a statement on that subject in the handbook,
> please do not hesitate to refer to the section.
>

http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en/books/porters-handbook/book.html#AEN3090

This appears to be a new feature- I didn't know about it either :)

Chris