Date: Sun, 18 Jun 2000 15:09:36 -0700 From: "David O'Brien" <obrien@FreeBSD.org> To: Will Andrews <andrews@technologist.com> Cc: "David O'Brien" <obrien@FreeBSD.org>, Satoshi Asami <asami@FreeBSD.org>, cvs-committers@FreeBSD.org, cvs-all@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: cvs commit: ports/Mk bsd.sites.mk bsd.port.mk Message-ID: <20000618150936.A564@dragon.nuxi.com> In-Reply-To: <20000618151449.A452@argon.gryphonsoft.com>; from andrews@technologist.com on Sun, Jun 18, 2000 at 03:14:49PM -0400 References: <200006140214.TAA22236@freefall.freebsd.org> <20000618114423.A69372@hub.freebsd.org> <20000618151449.A452@argon.gryphonsoft.com>
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On Sun, Jun 18, 2000 at 03:14:49PM -0400, Will Andrews wrote: > You should have spoke up a long time ago, when Maxim proposed this > addition. Now you're asking for another very large diff for little or > no benefit. I didn't realize there are no mirrors of sourceforge. > > The *big* advantage is one can look at a port's Makefile and cut-n-past > > the master site to check up on the distfile. Today there is an extra > > indirection thru bsd.sites.mk. > > And this is missed how, when you can simply use ``make fetch''? Uh... "check up on the distfiles" means see if there is a newer version. I didn't realize ``make fetch'' was smart enough to grap the latest version now. -- -- David (obrien@FreeBSD.org) To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe cvs-all" in the body of the message
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