From owner-freebsd-ports Wed May 27 20:55:27 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id UAA20177 for freebsd-ports-outgoing; Wed, 27 May 1998 20:55:27 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from nexus.astro.psu.edu (nexus.astro.psu.edu [128.118.147.20]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with SMTP id UAA20172 for ; Wed, 27 May 1998 20:55:24 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from mph@astro.psu.edu) Received: from mstar.astro.psu.edu by nexus.astro.psu.edu (4.1/Nexus-1.3) id AA23716; Wed, 27 May 98 23:55:20 EDT Received: by mstar.astro.psu.edu (SMI-8.6/Client-1.3) id XAA01377; Wed, 27 May 1998 23:55:18 -0400 Message-Id: <19980527235517.A1349@mstar.astro.psu.edu> Date: Wed, 27 May 1998 23:55:17 -0400 From: Matthew Hunt To: freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: port makefile problem: DISTFILES in multiple directories Mail-Followup-To: freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG References: <19980527095202.15064@ddm.on.ca> <19980527124049.A2177@flarn.dyn.ml.org> <19980527222211.28444@ddm.on.ca> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.91.1i In-Reply-To: <19980527222211.28444@ddm.on.ca>; from Dave Chapeskie on Wed, May 27, 1998 at 10:22:11PM -0400 Sender: owner-freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org 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 * 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