make fetch, but skip broken ports

[int19h]

When running make fetch over a category, is there any way to tell it to skip any ports that are marked as broken? E.g. doing it for astro right now, you immediately run into this:

https://forums.freebsd.org/threads/58827/

 

[SirDice]

Why on earth would you want to fetch everything? There are close to 31500 ports, so that's a lot of data, most of it is probably never going to get used (I very much doubt you're going to install everything).

 

[tobik@]

When running make fetch over a category, is there any way to tell it to skip any ports that are marked as broken?

I don't think so, but you could create /usr/ports/astro/Makefile.local with

SUBDIR:=	${SUBDIR:Ngmapcatcher:Nviking}

to exclude specific ports.

You can always try make -DTRYBROKEN fetch but there is no guarantee that the distfiles of broken ports can be fetched.

 

[int19h]

Thanks! This works to the extent that some ports marked as broken due to Google Code being down then fetch distfiles from FreeBSD mirror. But some don't. I ended up just writing a script that walks the tree and invokes make fetch recursively, ignoring errors.

As far as why - think of an offline distfiles cache, shared and/or distributed on USB sticks etc. The size is manageable - I did a very similar thing for Arch Linux before, and it added up to less than 60 GB of files - a perfect fit for your typical 64 GB stick or SD card.