Re: explanation of FETCH_PACKAGES in ports(7)

On 2020/04/26 16:42, f.holop wrote:
> hi,
>
> i am having difficulties understanding this sentence, could someone
> help me out?
>
>
> FETCH_PACKAGES
> If set, try to use as options to pkg_add(1) to install the
> missing packages from PKG_PATH. For instance:
>
> make FETCH_PACKAGES=
>
> -f
> --
>

If set, even to an empty string) rather than building missing
dependencies from source, pkg_add(1) will be called to install missing
packages from PKGPATH.

If not an empty string, it will be called as "pkg_add ${FETCH_PACKAGES}"
which is useful in some niche cases.