Date: Mon, 11 Dec 2000 11:14:04 +0100 From: J Wunsch <j@ida.interface-business.de> To: freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: How to connect additional distribution files to a port? Message-ID: <20001211111404.C94175@ida.interface-business.de> In-Reply-To: <20001208192741.A11933@ringworld.oblivion.bg>; from roam@orbitel.bg on Fri, Dec 08, 2000 at 07:27:42PM %2B0200 References: <20001208151658.D22163@B7173150.DeutschePost.de> <20001208155822.A58038@cichlids.cichlids.com> <20001208160616.G22163@B7173150.DeutschePost.de> <20001208192741.A11933@ringworld.oblivion.bg>
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As Peter Pentchev wrote: > > It wouldn't have worked in the avr-libc case, where the doc file was > > to be fetched from a totally different site. > > Why wouldn't it have worked? It is perfectly legal to specify more than > one location in MASTER_SITES, and even more than one MASTER_SITE_SUBDIR. But i think it's fishy to ask some FTP server for a file where you know beforehand it won't be there. No, sorry, i don't buy _that_. MASTER_SITES should IMHO only be used to specify alternative servers for getting an otherwise identical fileset. Maybe we should have something like ADDITIONAL_FILES= http://some.server.com/~user/foobar.pdf \ ftp://some.other.server.ru/pub/outgoing/largedocs.tar.gz ...to specify additonal files to be fetched from various sites. -- J"org Wunsch Unix support engineer joerg_wunsch@interface-systems.de http://www.interface-systems.de/~j To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-ports" in the body of the message
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