From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sat Apr 3 23:33:38 2004 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 EF2F416A4CE for ; Sat, 3 Apr 2004 23:33:38 -0800 (PST) Received: from smtp.nildram.co.uk (smtp.nildram.co.uk [195.112.4.54]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 953F243D46 for ; Sat, 3 Apr 2004 23:33:38 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from nullentropy@lineone.net) Received: from lineone.net (orbital.gotadsl.co.uk [81.6.215.230]) by smtp.nildram.co.uk (Postfix) with ESMTP id F2F9A25FD00 for ; Sun, 4 Apr 2004 08:33:35 +0100 (BST) Message-ID: <406FBA4D.7020104@lineone.net> Date: Sun, 04 Apr 2004 08:33:33 +0100 From: Robert Downes User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7b) Gecko/20040403 X-Accept-Language: en, fr, en-us MIME-Version: 1.0 To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: MASTER_SITE_OVERRIDE in make.conf X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sun, 04 Apr 2004 07:33:39 -0000 My make.conf file contains the line: MASTER_SITE_OVERRIDE=ftp://ftp.uk.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/ports/distfiles Someone gave me this line months ago when I asked how to instruct make to request files from local FTP servers (rather than dumping all requests on the master server). However, I can not find a description for this line in any official literature. I have checked man make.conf, and there seems to be no mention. Where should I be looking for the definitive description of this configuration setting, or has it been removed from recent versions of FreeBSD? -- Bob