Date: Sat, 26 Jan 2002 14:58:55 -0800 From: Kris Kennaway <kris@obsecurity.org> To: Joerg Wunsch <j@uriah.heep.sax.de>, Kris Kennaway <kris@obsecurity.org>, cvs-committers@FreeBSD.org, cvs-all@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: cvs commit: ports/devel/avr-libc/files README.libdoc avr-lib.pdf Message-ID: <20020126145855.A19398@xor.obsecurity.org> In-Reply-To: <20020126232908.B57609@uriah.heep.sax.de>; from j@uriah.heep.sax.de on Sat, Jan 26, 2002 at 11:29:08PM %2B0100 References: <200201261759.g0QHxuH09971@freefall.freebsd.org> <20020126151342.V18609@squall.waterspout.com> <20020126220447.H4785@uriah.heep.sax.de> <20020126131446.A18271@xor.obsecurity.org> <20020126223027.I4785@uriah.heep.sax.de> <20020126134944.B18593@xor.obsecurity.org> <20020126232908.B57609@uriah.heep.sax.de>
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--h31gzZEtNLTqOjlF Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Sat, Jan 26, 2002 at 11:29:08PM +0100, Joerg Wunsch wrote: > As Kris Kennaway wrote: >=20 > > I missed this discussion. Could you summarize why you can't just > > treat it like a distfile? >=20 > Please walk the archives of the ports mailing list, starting with > Message <20001208151658.D22163@B7173150.DeutschePost.de>. >=20 > There wasn't any solution that would fit all requirements, so a > compromise was needed in one way or the other. Okay: ---- As Peter Pentchev wrote: > > It wouldn't have worked in the avr-libc case, where the doc file was > > to be fetched from a totally different site. > > Why wouldn't it have worked? It is perfectly legal to specify more than > one location in MASTER_SITES, and even more than one MASTER_SITE_SUBDIR. But i think it's fishy to ask some FTP server for a file where you know beforehand it won't be there. No, sorry, i don't buy _that_. MASTER_SITES should IMHO only be used to specify alternative servers for getting an otherwise identical fileset. Maybe we should have something like [...] ---- As luck would have it, there's now a proper way to take care of this. Look at the MASTER_SITE_<n> stuff in <bsd.port.mk>, which lets you group your distfiles and obtain them from separate groups of MASTER_SITES. > I don't see why people start complaining more than a year ago, when > i've been asking for help initially. Because like I said, I only just noticed it. Kris --h31gzZEtNLTqOjlF Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.0.6 (FreeBSD) Comment: For info see http://www.gnupg.org iD8DBQE8UzSvWry0BWjoQKURAmWwAKDgYOgXyNg3nC0JEN2NVKSWWgTp1wCfXEIF cr1IaRBM4p9+XmN6jpLcKAs= =QtZo -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --h31gzZEtNLTqOjlF-- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe cvs-all" in the body of the message
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