Re: Do not uncompress a distfile

[Roland Illig <roland.illig%gmx.de@localhost>]

21.05.2021 23:11:06 Brook Milligan <brook%nmsu.edu@localhost>:

> I am writing a package that distributes a set of distfiles that should only be copied to WRKSRC not uncompressed.  Some of these are *.jar files, but some are *.gz files that would normally be uncompressed, which is incorrect.


What about this brute force approach?

do-extract:
        cp ${DISTFILES:%=${_DISTDIR}/%} ${WRKDIR}/

Accessing the internal _DISTDIR is not elegant, but if this approach works, we can think of a more elegant variant afterwards.