#50969: Provide a generic extract (and compress) commands in base --------------------------+---------------------- Reporter: mojca@… | Owner: raimue@… Type: enhancement | Status: new Priority: Normal | Milestone: Component: base | Version: 2.3.4 Resolution: | Keywords: Port: | --------------------------+---------------------- Comment (by rjvbertin@…): No, in my current case there is also the issue that the main file uses a different compression scheme, so putting the additional file in distfiles will cause the extraction phase to fail. However, one can think of other scenarios where one would want to download additional file(s) outside of the regular mechanism mostly designed for source files. Configuration, templates, data, there are many kinds of additional things a port could want to provide automatically when it is (re)installed, that are kept up-to-date upstreams but for which the installed software doesn't provide an integrated updating mechanism. I admit, it's still a bit far-fetched. OTOH, almost all the work has been done, cf. my example `file_fetch` procedure above. -- Ticket URL: <https://trac.macports.org/ticket/50969#comment:6> MacPorts <https://www.macports.org/> Ports system for OS X