Date: Wed, 27 May 1998 23:55:17 -0400 From: Matthew Hunt <mph@pobox.com> To: freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: port makefile problem: DISTFILES in multiple directories Message-ID: <19980527235517.A1349@mstar.astro.psu.edu> In-Reply-To: <19980527222211.28444@ddm.on.ca>; from Dave Chapeskie on Wed, May 27, 1998 at 10:22:11PM -0400 References: <19980527095202.15064@ddm.on.ca> <19980527124049.A2177@flarn.dyn.ml.org> <19980527222211.28444@ddm.on.ca>
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On Wed, May 27, 1998 at 10:22:11PM -0400, Dave Chapeskie wrote: > > MASTER_SITES= ftp://ftp.gmd.de/if-archive/infocom/compilers/inform6/source \ > > ftp://ftp.gmd.de/if-archive/infocom/compilers/inform6/library \ > > etc > > DISTFILES= inform615_source.zip inform_library67.tar.gz etc. > But I need to get 8 files from 4 different directories. That means > that there will be an absolute minimum of 6 failures (in my case the > best I can do is 7 failures). I find that 'solution' unacceptable and > dismissed it immediately. Why? They should be fast failures. Failures of this type are typical and expected in circumstances like this one. > Before I did that I'd go through the effort to repackage the stuff and > make my own tarball. If you don't like the solution above, I would suggest taking the eight distfiles and putting them in a single MASTER_SITE. If you do not have a place handy, I can put them in http://www.freebsd.org/~mph/distfiles for you. -- Matthew Hunt <mph@pobox.com> * Stay close to the Vorlon. http://mph124.rh.psu.edu/~mph/pgp.key for PGP public key 0x67203349. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-ports" in the body of the message
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