From owner-freebsd-amd64@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Oct 18 23:09:59 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-amd64@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 13D1A16A4CE for ; Mon, 18 Oct 2004 23:09:59 +0000 (GMT) Received: from odin.ac.hmc.edu (Odin.AC.HMC.Edu [134.173.32.75]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id DD7BE43D64 for ; Mon, 18 Oct 2004 23:09:58 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from brdavis@odin.ac.hmc.edu) Received: from odin.ac.hmc.edu (localhost.localdomain [127.0.0.1]) by odin.ac.hmc.edu (8.13.0/8.13.0) with ESMTP id i9INAXE1010128; Mon, 18 Oct 2004 16:10:34 -0700 Received: (from brdavis@localhost) by odin.ac.hmc.edu (8.13.0/8.13.0/Submit) id i9INAX1Y010127; Mon, 18 Oct 2004 16:10:33 -0700 Date: Mon, 18 Oct 2004 16:10:33 -0700 From: Brooks Davis To: Gert Cuykens Message-ID: <20041018231033.GA9658@odin.ac.hmc.edu> References: <200410181646.44654.howells@kde.org> <4173EAE2.9050001@pragmeta.com> <57979.192.168.0.1.1098116798.squirrel@192.168.0.1> <20041018172419.GC5179@dragon.nuxi.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="3MwIy2ne0vdjdPXF" Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.1i X-Virus-Scanned: by amavisd-new X-Spam-Status: No, hits=0.0 required=8.0 tests=none autolearn=no version=2.63 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 2.63 (2004-01-11) on odin.ac.hmc.edu cc: freebsd-amd64@freebsd.org Subject: Re: cvsup X-BeenThere: freebsd-amd64@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: Porting FreeBSD to the AMD64 platform List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 18 Oct 2004 23:09:59 -0000 --3MwIy2ne0vdjdPXF Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable [This has NOTHING to do with amd64.] On Tue, Oct 19, 2004 at 12:54:09AM +0200, Gert Cuykens wrote: > Is there a config file were i can chose a ftp mirror server ? Add something like the following to your /etc/make.conf to cause the ports collection to try a freebsd mirror server before other locations: MIRROR_PREFIX?=3Dfile://localhost/mirrors/ftp/pub MASTER_SITE_OVERRIDE=3D${MIRROR_PREFIX}/FreeBSD/ports/distfiles/${DIST_SUBD= IR}/ This example shows using an NFS mount of a local mirror as the default. > Does the ports system use perl or is perl needed to use ports ? If so, wh= y ? "make index" requires perl because no one has stepped up and produced a better solution. -- Brooks --=20 Any statement of the form "X is the one, true Y" is FALSE. PGP fingerprint 655D 519C 26A7 82E7 2529 9BF0 5D8E 8BE9 F238 1AD4 --3MwIy2ne0vdjdPXF Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.1 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFBdE1pXY6L6fI4GtQRAliMAJ90hx3PvOPsyO/ixhiWWEiqT3j5MQCghlRU OBxfl9JNutInAxRwSE7xTiE= =KZi3 -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --3MwIy2ne0vdjdPXF--