Date: Sun, 3 Aug 1997 14:05:17 -0400 (EDT) From: Tim Vanderhoek <hoek@hwcn.org> To: David Nugent <davidn@unique.usn.blaze.net.au> Cc: hoek@hwcn.org, current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: ports-current/packages-current discontinued Message-ID: <Pine.GSO.3.96.970803135717.1366E-100000@james.freenet.hamilton.on.ca> In-Reply-To: <199708030414.OAA20765@unique.usn.blaze.net.au>
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On Sun, 3 Aug 1997, David Nugent wrote: > 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. :) We have to keep all the unnecessary bytes off the user's hdd. If, during sysinstall-time, I'm grabbing the distfile from the ftp.freebsd.org, I don't want it sitting in /usr/ports/distfiles. I want it to be expanded, and thrown into the appropriate source directory, where it will get rebuilt the next time ``make world'' is run. BTW, it shouldn't be necessary to symlink /usr/ports/distfiles to /cdrom anymore. If you use MASTER_SITE_OVERRIDE, fetch(1) will recognize the file:// url and make a symlink from /usr/ports/distfiles/mydist.hqx to /cdrom/mydist.hqx. (Or, at least, it should. :) -- Outnumbered? Maybe. Outspoken? Never! tIM...HOEk
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