Reducing the size of the ports tree (brainstorm v2)

[Christian Weisgerber]

On 2014-10-31, Tijl Coosemans <tijl at FreeBSD.org> wrote:

> For distinfo I was thinking about something like this in the Makefile:
>
> DIST_FILES=	FOO BAR
>
> FOO_FILE=	foo-1.0
> FOO_SITES=	http://www.example.com/foo/
> FOO_SIZE=	12345
> FOO_SHA256=	0123456789abcdef.....

This is where OpenBSD's sha256(1)'s support for checksums in base64
notation would come in handy.

> Then for ports with a single distfile named after PORTNAME (the large
> majority), the above would reduce to: [...]
> Also, if BAR_SITES is the same as FOO_SITES you can use somthing like
> BAR_SITES=${FOO_SITES} of course.

Well, as long as "make makesum" does the right thing...

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Christian "naddy" Weisgerber                          naddy at mips.inka.de