Date: Wed, 04 Jun 2014 17:37:25 +0200 From: Torsten Zuehlsdorff <mailinglists@toco-domains.de> To: "A.J. 'Fonz' van Werven" <freebsd@skysmurf.nl> Cc: mexas@bris.ac.uk, freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Subject: Re: drop maintainership of 6 ports Message-ID: <538F3D35.3080704@toco-domains.de> In-Reply-To: <20140604152540.GA46545@spectrum.skysmurf.nl> References: <201406021058.s52AwBLS000753@mech-cluster241.men.bris.ac.uk> <538DC1B1.3030408@toco-domains.de> <20140603130359.GA38526@spectrum.skysmurf.nl> <538F2C43.1080006@toco-domains.de> <20140604152540.GA46545@spectrum.skysmurf.nl>
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On 04.06.2014 17:25, A.J. 'Fonz' van Werven wrote: > Torsten Zuehlsdorff wrote: >>> 3. If you can, mirror the distfile and add your site to MASTER_SITES. >> >> I could easily mirror the distfile. But i'm unsure where to add the entry. >> There is an entry MASTER_SITE_NETLIB in /usr/ports/Mk/bsd.sites.mk, which >> definies the url for the distfiles. But if i understand correctly, the >> MASTER_SITES listed there provide every file from Netlib, not just the >> single distfile. >> >> So how could i add my mirror http://ports.toco-domains.de/fdfpp.tgz to the >> port? > > Just add it to the port's Makefile (/usr/ports/devel/fpp/Makefile). > > It currently says: > MASTER_SITES= NL > MASTER_SITE_SUBDIR= fortran > > Make that: > MASTER_SITES= NL/fortran/ \ > http://ports.toco-domains.de/ > > Note that the use of MASTER_SITE_SUBDIR is, well, maybe technically not > deprecated, but no longer necessary either and in this case it's actually > inconvenient, so get rid of that. Okay, i changed it this way. :) > You can test the mirror by temporarily removing the NL bit, making it > MASTER_SITES= http://ports.toco-domains.de/ > and doing > # cd /usr/ports/devel/fpp > # make distclean > # make fetch > > It should then fetch the distfile from your mirror (note that it will try > distcache.FreeBSD.org next if it fails). If it works, you can add the NL > bit back in. This worked :) > Hope this helps, Yes, it does. Thank you very much. I've submitted the PR with the patch for the maintainer update a minute ago. Thank you very much! Greetings, Torsten
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