distfile spec in variant?

Joshua Root jmr at macports.org
Thu Apr 30 13:19:37 PDT 2009


Darren Weber wrote:
> 
> Working on graphics/vtk-devel, which includes a doc variant with a large
> download and install time.
> 
> Is it possible to specify the distfile, fetch, extract, etc. entirely
> within the variant?  If the variant is not selected, the port should not
> download the documentation archive.

Use distfiles-append and another post-extract (if necessary) in the variant.

- Josh


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