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From: Kris Kennaway <kris@obsecurity.org>
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On Sun, Feb 08, 2004 at 12:43:09AM +0000, Liam Foy wrote:
> I am trying to fix a few ports, but I cant find why:
>=20
> ftp://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/ports/distfiles/
>=20
> is not hardcoded in to bsd.sites.mk, it is:
>=20
> ftp://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/ports/local-distfiles/
>=20
> and is sorted in to some type of port-commiters usernames.
> I am writing to see whether is it bad practice to put:
>=20
> ftp://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/ports/distfiles/distfile.tar.gz
> in MASTER_SITES? I assumed that :
> ftp://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/ports/distfiles, would have
> been hardcoded, anyone enlighten me?

This is what MASTER_SITE_BACKUP and MASTER_SITE_OVERRIDE is for, see
the default make.conf.

Kris

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