overriding the checksum phase

[Joshua Root]

Eric Hall wrote:
> On Fri, Mar 27, 2009 at 06:23:33AM -0500, Ryan Schmidt wrote:
>> On Mar 27, 2009, at 06:19, Ryan Schmidt wrote:
>>
>>> Wouldn't you say that no port should ever override the checksum  
>>> phase? If there are distfiles, their checksums must be validated,  
>>> and if there are no distfiles, then the checksum phase won't get  
>>> run anyway.
>>>
>>> Same with the extract phase.
>> Same with the fetch phase.
>>
>>
>> $ grep '^fetch[[:space:]]*{[[:space:]]*}' */*/Portfile
>> databases/postgresql80-server/Portfile:fetch    {}
>> databases/postgresql81-server/Portfile:fetch    {}
>> databases/postgresql82-server/Portfile:fetch    {}
>> databases/postgresql83-server/Portfile:fetch    {}
> 
> [snip list of ports...]
> 
> 	Some of the ports listed don't have any files
> they download and install, for example the postgres8?-server
> ports create the user+group and startup item for the
> DB engine, the dependency (port:postgresql8?) installs
> all of the files, etc.  Thus the NULL fetch, checksum, etc.
> phases are valid for these ports.  Is there a better way
> to indicate that the ports don't have anything to fetch, etc.?

Yes, clear distfiles, like in xorg-libs.

I can see potential valid uses for overriding the fetch and extract
phases, but clearing them entirely doesn't seems like it would ever be
necessary.

- Josh