Date: Mon, 1 Aug 2011 10:42:13 -0400 From: "b. f." <bf1783@googlemail.com> To: Anton Shterenlikht <mexas@bristol.ac.uk>, freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: porter handbook MASTER_SITES section outdated? Message-ID: <CAGFTUwM3sSODjBOEmU_2RjyqmHa__NHj%2BxrHZQQeNHrYbu50Cg@mail.gmail.com>
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> 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 given in the porters handbook outdated?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. b.
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