Date: Tue, 12 Dec 2000 10:30:23 +0100 From: J Wunsch <j@ida.interface-business.de> To: freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: How to connect additional distribution files to a port? Message-ID: <20001212103023.A98669@ida.interface-business.de> In-Reply-To: <20001211175846.V86825@elvis.mu.org>; from billf@mu.org on Mon, Dec 11, 2000 at 05:58:47PM -0600 References: <20001208151658.D22163@B7173150.DeutschePost.de> <20001208155822.A58038@cichlids.cichlids.com> <20001208160616.G22163@B7173150.DeutschePost.de> <20001208192741.A11933@ringworld.oblivion.bg> <20001211111404.C94175@ida.interface-business.de> <20001211175846.V86825@elvis.mu.org>
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As Bill Fumerola wrote: > > ADDITIONAL_FILES= http://some.server.com/~user/foobar.pdf \ > > ftp://some.other.server.ru/pub/outgoing/largedocs.tar.gz > > > > ...to specify additonal files to be fetched from various sites. > > This scales equally as poor as the current system, but for different reasons. > > Consider one file that comes from ${MASTER_SITE_FOO}/... and another that > comes from ${MASTER_SITE_BAR}/... Sorry, i can't follow you. That was _exactly_ my concern, a port which has to collect files from different `master sites', where each of the sites has only one of the files required. I don't understand how this situation could ``scale'' in any way at all, sorry. Compared to MASTER_SITE=http://some.server.com/~user/ \ ftp://some.other.sever.ru/pub/outgoing/ DISTFILES=foobar.pdf largedocs.tar.gz my proposal at least prevents master sites from being asked for the wrong files (e. g. http://some.server.com/~user/largedocs.tar.gz). While the difference is certainly marginal, i consider it bad behaviour to intentionally ask someone for a file you know you don't even want to get from him, and in the worst case, the some.other.server.ru FTP server might even have a foobar.pdf file around which is something totally different than what we want (e. g. since the filename has been chosen poorly)! -- J"org Wunsch Unix support engineer joerg_wunsch@interface-systems.de http://www.interface-systems.de/~j To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-ports" in the body of the message
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