Date: Sun, 27 Jan 2008 04:07:09 +0200 From: Cristian KLEIN <cristi@roedu.net> To: Doug Barton <dougb@FreeBSD.org> Cc: "Rick C. Petty" <rick-freebsd@kiwi-computer.com>, hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: DIST_SUBDIR not working with MASTER_SITE_OVERRIDE Message-ID: <479BE74D.50507@roedu.net> In-Reply-To: <alpine.BSF.1.00.0801261619240.16534@ync.qbhto.arg> References: <50587.193.226.5.33.1201086363.squirrel@mail.roedu.net> <20080123202543.GA59457@keira.kiwi-computer.com> <alpine.BSF.1.00.0801261619240.16534@ync.qbhto.arg>
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Doug Barton a scris: > 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. Perhaps there should be two variables: MASTER_SITE_OVERRIDE and MASTER_SITE_OVERRIDE_ALL.
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