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Date:      Fri, 28 Jan 2005 09:04:52 +0100
From:      Gert Cuykens <gert.cuykens@gmail.com>
To:        Giorgos Keramidas <keramida@ceid.upatras.gr>, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: cvsup doc-all
Message-ID:  <ef60af0905012800046168ccd3@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <20050128075107.GA37836@gothmog.gr>
References:  <ef60af0905012723102a5f6615@mail.gmail.com> <20050128073801.GA31145@gothmog.gr> <ef60af0905012723445feb3f09@mail.gmail.com> <20050128075107.GA37836@gothmog.gr>

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On Fri, 28 Jan 2005 09:51:07 +0200, Giorgos Keramidas
<keramida@ceid.upatras.gr> wrote:
> Yep.  If you think a bit about it, you will see it makes more sense.
> What is it that you download with src-all?  The "sources of the system".
> The "doc-all" collection downloads "the sources of the documentation".

aha but all docs will be updated when you do a buildworld right ?

> Look at `/usr/ports/Mk/bsd.sites.mk'.  It has a huge list of sites where
> port distfiles are downloaded from.  You can tweak this list by setting
> similar variables in your `/etc/make.conf' file, i.e.:
> 
>         MASTER_SITE_GNU?=       ftp://ftp.ntua.gr/pub/gnu/%SUBDIR%/
> 
> Note the "conditional assignment" with ?= there.  The 'make.conf' file
> should very rarely set things unconditionally, with "FOO=bar".

so basicly you dont have to worry about ports server because it will
find the best server by it self ?

why does cvsup not work the same way ?



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