Date: Tue, 25 Apr 1995 08:36:53 +0200 (MET DST) From: Thomas Gellekum <thomas@ghpc8.ihf.rwth-aachen.de> To: asami@cs.berkeley.edu (Satoshi Asami | =?ISO-2022-JP?B?GyRCQHUbKEI=?= =?ISO-2022-JP?B?GyRCOCsbKEIgGyRCOC0bKEI=?=) Cc: thomas@ghpc8.ihf.rwth-aachen.de, scott@statsci.com, gpalmer@cdrom.com, jkh@freefall.cdrom.com, nwestfal@indigo.csci.csusb.edu, ports@freefall.cdrom.com Subject: Re: /usr/ports/distfiles - did I screw the pooch here? Message-ID: <199504250636.IAA24833@ghpc6.ihf.rwth-aachen.de> In-Reply-To: <199504250617.XAA03761@silvia.HIP.Berkeley.EDU> from "Satoshi Asami | =?ISO-2022-JP?B?GyRCQHUbKEI=?= =?ISO-2022-JP?B?GyRCOCsbKEIgGyRCOC0bKEI=?=" at Apr 24, 95 11:17:20 pm
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Satoshi Asami | =?ISO-2022-JP?B?GyRCQHUbKEI=?= =?ISO-2022-JP?B?GyRCOCsbKEIgGyRCOC0bKEI=?= wrote:
>
> * Well, in any case, if a mirror site of wcarchive is configured that
> * way, the symlinks will not help to keep the distfiles out of the
> * ports directory. The mirror will have the links, too...
>
> I guess. But it's the best we can do, as we can't remove the
> distfiles/ completely from wcarchive....
How about two separate directories (/usr/ports, /usr/distfiles)?
This requires only one change in bsd.ports.mk (${DISTDIR} or what
was that variable again?) and you could get ports.tar.gz on any
mirror, regardless of its configuration.
tg
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