After much discussion with fellow porters, we changes the way DISTFILES + MASTER_SITES work
the old way (DISTFILES = somefile:0 to match with MASTER_SITES0) still works but the new way is to write DISTFILES.sufx = somefile which will match with MASTER_SITES.sufx this works identically with SUPDISTFILES/PATCHFILES. In order to work, this requires a recent make(1). bsd.port.mk will error out with a decent error message in this case. dpb(1) and sqlports are aware of the new method. The idea was that MASTER_SITESn was getting cramped and hardcoded for stuff like go, or github. This will allow "arbitrary" allocation of names in order to use several modules concurrently. Basically, a port that uses several files from different locations will no longer require people to provide a local mirror of some of the files because the framework is inflexible. As of now, I would say to not QUITE use it, but keep testing and checking that things didn't break (I did a full bulk with the initial bsd.port.mk change) sqlports is slightly affected: since there are umpteen DISTFILES* SUPDISTFILES* PATCHFILES* MASTER_SITES* variables, they no longer live in the main ports view, but instead in the various _Distfiles, _fetchfiles tables or the corresponding views (I've kept the main DISTFILES without a sufx variables inside the main view... that's still 99% of the ports) Eventually, if things work as planned, I hope to kill MASTER_SITES0-9 entirely. The new way is actually less boilerplace code !
