From owner-freebsd-ports Wed May 20 08:16:25 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id IAA15081 for freebsd-ports-outgoing; Wed, 20 May 1998 08:16:25 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from ns1.yes.no (ns1.yes.no [195.119.24.10]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id IAA15065; Wed, 20 May 1998 08:16:10 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from eivind@bitbox.follo.net) Received: from bitbox.follo.net (bitbox.follo.net [195.204.143.218]) by ns1.yes.no (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id PAA21952; Wed, 20 May 1998 15:16:06 GMT Received: (from eivind@localhost) by bitbox.follo.net (8.8.8/8.8.6) id RAA06268; Wed, 20 May 1998 17:16:05 +0200 (MET DST) Message-ID: <19980520171604.42978@follo.net> Date: Wed, 20 May 1998 17:16:04 +0200 From: Eivind Eklund To: Peter Hawkins , Satoshi Asami Cc: cvs-committers@FreeBSD.ORG, ports@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/share/mk Makefile References: <199805201050.DAA17387@baloon.mimi.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.89.1i In-Reply-To: ; from Peter Hawkins on Thu, May 21, 1998 at 12:29:45AM +1000 Sender: owner-freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On Thu, May 21, 1998 at 12:29:45AM +1000, Peter Hawkins wrote: > >(2) Many of the mirrors don't carry distfiles, or have incomplete > > sets. Hiding the list from the user (I'm assuming make.conf is > > visible and bsd.*.mk are not) is just plain wrong. > > OK - it will try them and then move on as it stands but empty sites could > be removed from the list too. Partly empty sites get tried then make > moves on. Even so it's faster by FAR for us non-usa makers. Yes I could > tweek MASTER_SITE_BACKUP, but how do I get to insert a site to look in > *before* it ducks off to sunsite or wherever? MASTER_SITE_OVERRIDE It is documented in /etc/make.conf - but I still think that providing good guesses at which sites you'd want in this is a good change. Eivind. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-ports" in the body of the message