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Date:      Mon, 07 Feb 2005 20:09:33 -0500
From:      Chuck Swiger <cswiger@mac.com>
To:        Adam Weinberger <adamw@magnesium.net>
Cc:        Edwin Groothuis <edwin@mavetju.org>
Subject:   Re: Proposal: overridable bsd.sites.mk
Message-ID:  <4208114D.7040309@mac.com>
In-Reply-To: <42080B0F.1030408@magnesium.net>
References:  <4207E715.7060001@magnesium.net> <20050207221241.GU1175@k7.mavetju> <4207EA10.3090207@magnesium.net> <20050207222701.GP34807@k7.mavetju> <4207FA3D.2040907@magnesium.net> <20050207233924.GQ34807@k7.mavetju> <42080B0F.1030408@magnesium.net>

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Adam Weinberger wrote:
> Edwin Groothuis wrote:
[ ... ]
>>     You:
>>     IGNORE_MASTER_SITE_XORG=yes
>>     MASTER_SITE_XORG=http://z.x.y/
>>
>>     Me:
>>     MASTER_SITE_XORG=http://z.x.y/
>>
>> Easy!
[ ... ]
> I'd suspect that more people would want to narrow down distsites to a 
> specific couple of sites, not add more onto the list.
> 
> People Out There: if you could control the list of which sites distfiles 
> for, say, xorg stuff, are fetched from, would you rather add to the list 
> that's already there, or isolate particular sites you prefer?

I would like to specify a site to try first, and then fall back to the list 
that's already there.

If I didn't want to use a specific site (heanet.sf.net does come to mind :-), 
I'd be more likely to delete it from the list or set the RANDOMIZE... option. 
  I'm not sure I would use a "ignore all master sites" option, although I 
don't object to the idea, it just seems to me that I'd Cntl-C if I decided not 
to fetch something.

I tend to update a set of ports on a build machine, and either rsync the 
distfiles or the packages to other machines....

-- 
-Chuck



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