Doug Barton a scris:
On Wed, 23 Jan 2008, Rick C. Petty wrote:

On Wed, Jan 23, 2008 at 01:06:03PM +0200, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Hi everybody,

I recently wanted to install some gnome stuff from ports. In order to
boost the download speed, I did something like this:

make MASTER_SITE_OVERRIDE=ftp://ftp1.ro.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/distfiles/

as documented in the Handbook. However, many gnome packages seem to have
DIST_SUBDIR in their Makefile, but MASTER_SITE_OVERRIDE doesn't care. This
makes installing ports (with many dependencies) from known non-default
sources very hard.

I used to do something similar to this by setting it in /etc/make.conf.
The only downside is if DIST_SUBDIR is not set you get paths that don't
look pretty, e.g.:
    ftp://ftp5.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/distfiles//some_distfile.tgz

Instead, I added something to my /etc/make.conf similar to:

.if defined(DIST_SUBDIR)
DIST_SUBDIR_OVERRIDE=${DIST_SUBDIR}/
.else
DIST_SUBDIR_OVERRIDE=
.endif
MASTER_SITE_OVERRIDE=ftp://ftp5.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/distfiles/${DIST_SUBDIR_OVERRIDE}

IMO it would be a lot more intuitive if the ports infrastructure did exactly this for the user.

Perhaps there should be two variables:
MASTER_SITE_OVERRIDE and MASTER_SITE_OVERRIDE_ALL.

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