Date: Tue, 9 Aug 2011 15:34:15 +0100 From: Anton Shterenlikht <mexas@bristol.ac.uk> To: bf1783@gmail.com Cc: Anton Shterenlikht <mexas@bristol.ac.uk>, freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Subject: Re: porter handbook MASTER_SITES section outdated? Message-ID: <20110809143415.GC38982@mech-cluster241.men.bris.ac.uk> In-Reply-To: <CAGFTUwM3sSODjBOEmU_2RjyqmHa__NHj%2BxrHZQQeNHrYbu50Cg@mail.gmail.com> References: <CAGFTUwM3sSODjBOEmU_2RjyqmHa__NHj%2BxrHZQQeNHrYbu50Cg@mail.gmail.com>
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On Mon, Aug 01, 2011 at 10:42:13AM -0400, b. f. wrote: > > In sec 5.4.2 MASTER_SITES in the porter handbook: > > http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/porters-handbook/makefile-distfiles.html#AEN1512 > > > > the example given is: > > > > MASTER_SITES= ${MASTER_SITE_GNU} > > > > However, sunpoet@ has just committed my patch > > changing my ${IGNORE_MASTER_SITE_XCONTRIB} and > > ${MASTER_SITE_LOCAL} to: > > > > MASTER_SITES= XCONTRIB/applications \ > > http://seis.bris.ac.uk/~mexas/ \ > > LOCAL/simon > > > > Are both forms acceptable? Or is the form > > given in the porters handbook outdated? > > Yes. No. He is just making use of an abbreviation that is translated > into the full urls by the macros at the end of ports/Mk/bsd.sites.mk. > You can do the same in your own submissions, but you should check that > they actually work by using "make fetch-urlall-list" or the like. Thank you, very useful target. -- Anton Shterenlikht Room 2.6, Queen's Building Mech Eng Dept Bristol University University Walk, Bristol BS8 1TR, UK Tel: +44 (0)117 331 5944 Fax: +44 (0)117 929 4423
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