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In-reply-to: <199510160131.SAA03854@precipice.shockwave.com> (message from Paul Traina on Sun, 15 Oct 1995 18:31:26 -0700)
Subject: Re: how do you grab multiple files from various locations?
From: asami@cs.berkeley.edu (Satoshi Asami)
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(BTW, no need to send mail to asami@freebsd.org as well as
 ports@freebsd.org....I'll just get multiple copies and read them at
 the same time.  If you want to contact me directly (without the mail
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 "asami@cs.berkeley.edu".)

 * I actually went into the bsd.port.mk file and basename'ed the distfiles,
 * but I assume that that is utterly bogus.  You said you had a way of pulling
 * down multiple url's in different directories for a given port, how do you do
 * it?

Just define multiple MASTER_SITES and DISTFILES.  For each element in
${DISTFILE}, bsd.port.mk will try every one of the ${MASTER_SITES},
and complain if one of the files is not available on any of them.

You'll need a fairly new bsd.port.mk though, it went into the -current 
branch on 8/29 and -stable branch in 9/19.

Satoshi