Date: Sat, 26 Jan 2008 16:19:57 -0800 (PST) From: Doug Barton <dougb@FreeBSD.org> To: "Rick C. Petty" <rick-freebsd@kiwi-computer.com> Cc: cristi@roedu.net, hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: DIST_SUBDIR not working with MASTER_SITE_OVERRIDE Message-ID: <alpine.BSF.1.00.0801261619240.16534@ync.qbhto.arg> In-Reply-To: <20080123202543.GA59457@keira.kiwi-computer.com> References: <50587.193.226.5.33.1201086363.squirrel@mail.roedu.net> <20080123202543.GA59457@keira.kiwi-computer.com>
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On Wed, 23 Jan 2008, Rick C. Petty wrote: > On Wed, Jan 23, 2008 at 01:06:03PM +0200, cristi@roedu.net wrote: >> Hi everybody, >> >> I recently wanted to install some gnome stuff from ports. In order to >> boost the download speed, I did something like this: >> >> make MASTER_SITE_OVERRIDE=ftp://ftp1.ro.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/distfiles/ >> >> as documented in the Handbook. However, many gnome packages seem to have >> DIST_SUBDIR in their Makefile, but MASTER_SITE_OVERRIDE doesn't care. This >> makes installing ports (with many dependencies) from known non-default >> sources very hard. > > I used to do something similar to this by setting it in /etc/make.conf. > The only downside is if DIST_SUBDIR is not set you get paths that don't > look pretty, e.g.: > ftp://ftp5.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/distfiles//some_distfile.tgz > > Instead, I added something to my /etc/make.conf similar to: > > .if defined(DIST_SUBDIR) > DIST_SUBDIR_OVERRIDE=${DIST_SUBDIR}/ > .else > DIST_SUBDIR_OVERRIDE= > .endif > MASTER_SITE_OVERRIDE=ftp://ftp5.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/distfiles/${DIST_SUBDIR_OVERRIDE} IMO it would be a lot more intuitive if the ports infrastructure did exactly this for the user. Doug -- This .signature sanitized for your protection
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