Subject: Re: rename a DISTFILE at download time?
To: Mark E. Perkins <perkinsm@bway.net>
From: reed <reed@reedmedia.net>
List: pkgsrc-users
Date: 07/03/2007 18:12:39
> Is there a way in pkgsrc to rename a DISTFILE when it is downloaded?
> The reason I'm asking is that x11/xpmicons downloads both KDEicons.tgz
> and kdeicons.tgz, which results in breakage on case insensitive file
> systems. My thought is that an easy fix would be to save (remote file)
> KDEicons.tgz as (local file) KDEicons_.tgz (say). I don't see a way to
> do this with a pre-* or post-* target.
>
> Is this possible? Or is there a better pkgsrc solution for something
> like this?
Have a look at the pre-fetch target for an example in
pkgsrc/net/vncviewer/Makefile
Jeremy C. Reed