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Date:      Wed, 13 Nov 1996 19:49:08 +0800
From:      Peter Wemm <peter@spinner.DIALix.COM>
To:        Satoshi Meistersinger Asami <asami@freefall.freebsd.org>
Cc:        CVS-committers@freefall.freebsd.org, cvs-all@freefall.freebsd.org, cvs-share@freefall.freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: cvs commit: src/share/mk bsd.port.mk 
Message-ID:  <199611131149.TAA20948@spinner.DIALix.COM>
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Wed, 13 Nov 1996 03:37:42 PST." <199611131137.DAA10037@freefall.freebsd.org> 

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Satoshi Meistersinger Asami wrote:
>   (3) Add several popular master sites as variables.  For instance,
>       MASTER_SITE_XCONTRIB is defined to be a list of X11R6 contrib sites,
>       which you can set MASTER_SITES to in your Makefile if you just
>       want ftp.x.org or any of the mirror sites.
[..]
>       One nice thing this enables the user to do is to define the
>       nearest mirror site in /etc/make.conf.  This is especially useful
>       for continents without a full FreeBSD master site.
[..]
>       Right now, XCONTRIB, GNU, PERL_CPAN, TEX_CTAN, and SUNSITE are
>       supported.

Yippee!!

BTW:  "Satoshi Meistersinger Asami"
               ^^^^^^^^^^^^^  ??????!?!?!??!???!?!?
:-)

Cheers,
-Peter





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