From owner-freebsd-current Sat Aug 2 23:25:13 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id XAA07594 for current-outgoing; Sat, 2 Aug 1997 23:25:13 -0700 (PDT) Received: from scanner.worldgate.com (scanner.worldgate.com [198.161.84.3]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id XAA07589 for ; Sat, 2 Aug 1997 23:25:11 -0700 (PDT) Received: from znep.com (uucp@localhost) by scanner.worldgate.com (8.8.5/8.8.5) with UUCP id AAA18818; Sun, 3 Aug 1997 00:24:33 -0600 (MDT) Received: from localhost (marcs@localhost) by alive.znep.com (8.7.5/8.7.3) with SMTP id AAA16305; Sun, 3 Aug 1997 00:23:25 -0600 (MDT) Date: Sun, 3 Aug 1997 00:23:24 -0600 (MDT) From: Marc Slemko To: David Nugent cc: hoek@hwcn.org, current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: ports-current/packages-current discontinued In-Reply-To: <199708030414.OAA20765@unique.usn.blaze.net.au> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk On Sun, 3 Aug 1997, David Nugent wrote: > > Packages don't need sources. They are the moral equivalent to > > sysinstall adding only the binaries. When they do need sources, > > their's MASTER_SITE_OVERRIDE (which can be set to > > file://cdrom/distfiles). I've also always wanted an option to > > prevent bsd.port.mk from copying the fetched distfile insto > > ${DISTDIR}, so that could be added (necessary to prevent copying > > sources into /usr/ports/distfiles when > > MASTER_SITE_OVERRIDE=ftp://ftp.br.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/). > > Doesn't a symbolic link from /usr/ports/distfiles to the CDROM work? > This is admittedly problematic if you keep your ports tree up to > date, but it's a reasonable workaround I've used occasionally. :) A lndir should do the trick most of the time to keep /usr/ports/distfiles pointing to the cdrom but still allow things to be updated.