Date: Tue, 8 Feb 2005 05:56:12 -0800 From: Brooks Davis <brooks@one-eyed-alien.net> To: Adam Weinberger <adamw@magnesium.net> Cc: Edwin Groothuis <edwin@mavetju.org> Subject: Re: Proposal: overridable bsd.sites.mk Message-ID: <20050208135612.GB23315@odin.ac.hmc.edu> 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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--6sX45UoQRIJXqkqR Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Mon, Feb 07, 2005 at 07:42:55PM -0500, Adam Weinberger wrote: > Edwin Groothuis wrote: > >On Mon, Feb 07, 2005 at 06:31:09PM -0500, Adam Weinberger wrote: > > > >>Edwin Groothuis wrote: > >> > >>>On Mon, Feb 07, 2005 at 05:22:08PM -0500, Adam Weinberger wrote: > >>> > >>> > >>>>Edwin Groothuis wrote: > >>>> > >>>> > >>>>>On Mon, Feb 07, 2005 at 05:09:25PM -0500, Adam Weinberger wrote: > >>>>> > >>>>> > >>>>> > >>>>>>What do you guys think of changing the +=3D's in bsd.sites.mk to ?= =3D's?=20 > >>>>>>The deal is this: say I have a specific AfterStep dist site that I= =20 > >>>>>>want to use, and I don't want the default listed sites to be=20 > >>>>>>attempted at all. > >>>>>> > >>>>>>As it stands now, there are two current solutions that I see: > >>>>>>* edit bsd.sites.mk after every cvsup > >>>>>>* put like 100 entries for that site in MASTER_SITE_AFTERSTEP > >>>>>> in /etc/make.conf and turn on RANDOMIZE_MASTER_SITES > >>>>> > >>>>> > >>>>>"say I have a specific AfterStep dist site that I want to use" > >>>>> > >>>>>That's *one* entry in /etc/make.conf. > >>>>> > >>>>>Edwin > >>>>> > >>>> > >>>>What one entry can you put in /etc/make.conf that forces=20 > >>>>MASTER_SITE_AFTERSTEP to consist of one site, and one site only? > >>> > >>> > >>>Oh, that way. This patch does: > >>> > >>>+.if !defined(IGNORE_MASTER_SITE_XORG) > >>>MASTER_SITE_XORG+=3D \ > >>> ftp://ftp.x.org/pub/%SUBDIR%/ \ > >>> ftp://ftp.gwdg.de/pub/x11/x.org/pub/%SUBDIR%/ \ > >>>[...] > >>>+.endif > >>> > >>>Only 2x57 lines to be added, and it will not harm anybody else! > >>> > >>>(I would use this too to get rid of heanet.courseforge.net) > >>> > >>>Edwin > >> > >>How is that better than just letting people set any MASTER_SITE_* they= =20 > >>want explicitly? > > > > > >Because I don't want to add all fourty other distsites if I just > >have preferences over one to be tried first. > > > >With the proposed change: > > > > You: > > IGNORE_MASTER_SITE_XORG=3Dyes > > MASTER_SITE_XORG=3Dhttp://z.x.y/ > > > > Me: > > MASTER_SITE_XORG=3Dhttp://z.x.y/ > > > >Easy! > > > >Edwin >=20 > I'd suspect that more people would want to narrow down distsites to a=20 > specific couple of sites, not add more onto the list. >=20 > People Out There: if you could control the list of which sites distfiles= =20 > for, say, xorg stuff, are fetched from, would you rather add to the list= =20 > that's already there, or isolate particular sites you prefer? I want to add one or two to the top of the list so I can try to use my local mirrors when possible without having to reconfigure my make.conf if they get screwed up or out of sync. -- Brooks --=20 Any statement of the form "X is the one, true Y" is FALSE. PGP fingerprint 655D 519C 26A7 82E7 2529 9BF0 5D8E 8BE9 F238 1AD4 --6sX45UoQRIJXqkqR Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.1 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFCCMT8XY6L6fI4GtQRAoEsAKC2+AV5vKP4V7YVhuRGtk8I06Q1QQCgiuhi IZad2LxGmf8JbyKPJUZPPpY= =yX7y -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --6sX45UoQRIJXqkqR--
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