From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Jan 28 18:15:21 2005 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4EE8216A4CE for ; Fri, 28 Jan 2005 18:15:21 +0000 (GMT) Received: from rproxy.gmail.com (rproxy.gmail.com [64.233.170.202]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B6C3043D1F for ; Fri, 28 Jan 2005 18:15:18 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from gert.cuykens@gmail.com) Received: by rproxy.gmail.com with SMTP id b11so454780rne for ; Fri, 28 Jan 2005 10:15:18 -0800 (PST) DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; q=dns; c=nofws; s=beta; d=gmail.com; h=received:message-id:date:from:reply-to:to:subject:cc:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:references; b=qw8z28ss/qn8/eCDsKQnlOYY/Q7ji+kVdlZR9O2g+3UrZdjPyZIB01XwaBTJkhA84e2m9Fty3p6h9lkwqlA716TO0aHItC++DMVrurCZmxsZeVY5xgdhNtJfxIUtITQkm3zMaiSmz/WOnC5iidUTPQUnAgW4zykxip2rbgrBo14= Received: by 10.38.59.28 with SMTP id h28mr114631rna; Fri, 28 Jan 2005 10:15:18 -0800 (PST) Received: by 10.38.74.6 with HTTP; Fri, 28 Jan 2005 10:15:17 -0800 (PST) Message-ID: Date: Fri, 28 Jan 2005 19:15:17 +0100 From: Gert Cuykens To: Giorgos Keramidas In-Reply-To: <20050128104235.GA831@orion.daedalusnetworks.priv> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit References: <20050128073801.GA31145@gothmog.gr> <20050128075107.GA37836@gothmog.gr> <20050128104235.GA831@orion.daedalusnetworks.priv> cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: cvsup doc-all X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list Reply-To: Gert Cuykens List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 28 Jan 2005 18:15:21 -0000 On Fri, 28 Jan 2005 12:42:35 +0200, Giorgos Keramidas wrote: > On 2005-01-28 09:04, Gert Cuykens wrote: > >On Fri, 28 Jan 2005 09:51:07 +0200, Giorgos Keramidas > > wrote: > >> Yep. If you think a bit about it, you will see it makes more sense. > >> What is it that you download with src-all? The "sources of the system". > >> The "doc-all" collection downloads "the sources of the documentation". > > > > aha but all docs will be updated when you do a buildworld right ? > > Nope. The build of the documentation is not, shall we say, "self > contained" in the base system of FreeBSD. It requires many tools that > are not part of the base system. > > This means buildworld cannot assume that you have all of them, so it > doesn't try to build the documentation too. > > >> Look at `/usr/ports/Mk/bsd.sites.mk'. It has a huge list of sites where > >> port distfiles are downloaded from. You can tweak this list by setting > >> similar variables in your `/etc/make.conf' file, i.e.: > >> > >> MASTER_SITE_GNU?= ftp://ftp.ntua.gr/pub/gnu/%SUBDIR%/ > >> > >> Note the "conditional assignment" with ?= there. The 'make.conf' file > >> should very rarely set things unconditionally, with "FOO=bar". > > > > so basicly you dont have to worry about ports server because it will > > find the best server by it self ? > > Basically, yes. Not all the time, but that's the idea. Everything is > customizable though, to allow local "fixes" that make more sense. > > This is why I set MASTER_SITE_GNU as shown above in my machines -- it > makes more sense for machines installed in Greece. The ftp.ntua.gr > mirror is usually very up to date and it's one of the fastest Greek FTP > servers around. Putting it on the top of the MASTER_SITE_GNU list means > that whenever I try to build some GNU tool, ftp.ntua.gr is the first > server contacted. If that fails to locate the distfile, the usual list > of servers takes over. > > > why does cvsup not work the same way ? > > Because it wasn't written to do so. There is a utility in ports, > sysutils/fastest_cvsup, that may help you find the fastest CVSup server > at any given time :-) > > - Giorgos > ok thx :)