On 2014/06/12 23:27, Anthony J. Bentley wrote: > 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. >
Note that this does skip dependencies which may be needed for extracting distfiles, so on a clean system you'll need to manually install things like xz, bzip2, lha - and if you want to patch rather than extract, you'll need autoconf etc as well.
