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From: "Jeremy C. Reed" <reed@reedmedia.net>
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Subject: Re: Proposal: unification of distfiles for FreeBSD and NetBSD
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> One workaround would be for you to make your own local FTP mirror of your
> already-downloaded distfiles (like
> ftp://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/distfiles/) and then, for NetBSD, add it
> to your MASTER_SITE_BACKUP.

Don't make it the MASTER_SITE_BACKUP -- that will be later. Make it fetch
from it first. Maybe set that (for NetBSD) with MASTER_SITE_OVERRIDE.

   Jeremy C. Reed
   http://bsd.reedmedia.net/