From: espie <espie@openbsd.org>
Date: Sat, 26 Jul 2008 11:31:03 +0000 (+0000)
Subject: note that fetch hooks are a real bad idea
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note that fetch hooks are a real bad idea
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diff --git a/share/man/man5/bsd.port.mk.5 b/share/man/man5/bsd.port.mk.5
index 9d68c80a7a4..be8b74ee0e7 100644
--- a/share/man/man5/bsd.port.mk.5
+++ b/share/man/man5/bsd.port.mk.5
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-.\" $OpenBSD: bsd.port.mk.5,v 1.220 2008/07/26 11:05:32 espie Exp $
+.\" $OpenBSD: bsd.port.mk.5,v 1.221 2008/07/26 11:31:03 espie Exp $
 .\"
 .\" Copyright (c) 2000-2008 Marc Espie
 .\"
@@ -279,6 +279,10 @@ which will also retrieve
 .Ev SUPDISTFILES ,
 to fill with supplementary distribution files which are not needed for
 every configuration.
+Use of
+.Ar {pre,do,post}-fetch
+hooks is strongly discouraged, and will probably be removed in the
+near future, as this makes mirroring of distfiles very complicated.
 See
 .Ev CHECKSUMFILES ,
 .Ev CDROM_SITE ,