Ted Roby writes:
> I want to inspect the contents of multiple distfiles.
>
> Is there a way to use the ports system to extract and perhaps
> patch a distfile without first installing its dependencies?
>
> I've attempted to pass BUILD_DEPENDS='' LIB_DEPENDS='' WANTLIB=''
> but that hasn't worked. Before I write my own scripting to parse distfile
> information from the Makefile and then extract I wanted to know if this
> mechanism already existed within the ports system.
>From bsd.port.mk(7)...
NO_DEPENDS User settings. Don't verify build of dependencies. Do not
use in any ports Makefile. This is only meant as a user
convenience when, e.g., you just want to browse through a
given port's source and do not wish to trigger the build of
dependencies.
