Date: Sat, 25 Sep 1999 00:01:39 +0200 (CEST) From: Oliver Fromme <olli@dorifer.heim3.tu-clausthal.de> To: freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: A new package fetching utility, pkg_get Message-ID: <199909242201.AAA04068@dorifer.heim3.tu-clausthal.de>
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Daniel C. Sobral wrote in list.freebsd-hackers:
> Jaakko Salomaa wrote:
> > It's designed to be easy to use, so it first checks -s parameter, then
> > PKGSERVER environment variable, then the machine's toplevel domain. If the
> > toplevel domain contains only two letters it attemps to use
> > ftp.<tld>.freebsd.org, else it defaults to ftp.freebsd.org and prompts
> > whether the user wants to use it.
>
> Well... that's better than directing all users of the world
> automatically to ftp.freebsd.org. :-)
How about extracting the server name from the MASTER_SITE
specified in /etc/make.conf{,.local}?
Regards
Oliver
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