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Date:      Tue, 9 Aug 2011 15:34:15 +0100
From:      Anton Shterenlikht <mexas@bristol.ac.uk>
To:        bf1783@gmail.com
Cc:        Anton Shterenlikht <mexas@bristol.ac.uk>, freebsd-ports@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: porter handbook MASTER_SITES section outdated?
Message-ID:  <20110809143415.GC38982@mech-cluster241.men.bris.ac.uk>
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On Mon, Aug 01, 2011 at 10:42:13AM -0400, b. f. wrote:
> > In sec 5.4.2 MASTER_SITES in the porter handbook:
> > http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/porters-handbook/makefile-distfiles.html#AEN1512
> >
> > the example given is:
> >
> > MASTER_SITES=         ${MASTER_SITE_GNU}
> >
> > However, sunpoet@ has just committed my patch
> > changing my ${IGNORE_MASTER_SITE_XCONTRIB} and
> > ${MASTER_SITE_LOCAL} to:
> >
> > MASTER_SITES=   XCONTRIB/applications \
> >                 http://seis.bris.ac.uk/~mexas/ \
> >                 LOCAL/simon
> >
> > Are both forms acceptable? Or is the form
> > given in the porters handbook outdated?
> 
> Yes. No.  He is just making use of an abbreviation that is translated
> into the full urls by the macros at the end of ports/Mk/bsd.sites.mk.
> You can do the same in your own submissions, but you should check that
> they actually work by using "make fetch-urlall-list" or the like.

Thank you, very useful target.

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Anton Shterenlikht
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