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From: Kirill Ponomarew <krion@voodoo.oberon.net>
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Subject: Re: Proposal: overridable bsd.sites.mk
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On Mon, Feb 07, 2005 at 05:09:25PM -0500, Adam Weinberger wrote:
> (this is a repost of a message that I inadvertantly sent to 
> ports-committers@. thanks to edwin for pointing that out to me.)
> 
> What do you guys think of changing the +='s in bsd.sites.mk to ?='s? The 
> deal is this: say I have a specific AfterStep dist site that I want to 
> use, and I don't want the default listed sites to be attempted at all.
> 
> As it stands now, there are two current solutions that I see:
>     * edit bsd.sites.mk after every cvsup
>     * put like 100 entries for that site in MASTER_SITE_AFTERSTEP
>       in /etc/make.conf and turn on RANDOMIZE_MASTER_SITES
> 
> I propose a third solution:
> Change the bsd.sites.mk to MASTER_SITE_AFTERSTEP?=, and then I can 
> define MASTER_SITE_AFTERSTEP to be whatever I want it to be.
> 
> What do you think about this? Is there another solution that I'm 
> missing? Would this cause more problems than it would fix?

MASTER_SITE_OVERRIDE would help in this case, but it's of course a
global solution.

-Kirill