Date: Mon, 7 Feb 2005 23:11:14 +0100 From: Kirill Ponomarew <krion@voodoo.oberon.net> To: Adam Weinberger <adamw@magnesium.net> Cc: ports@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: Proposal: overridable bsd.sites.mk Message-ID: <20050207221114.GC7850@voodoo.oberon.net> In-Reply-To: <4207E715.7060001@magnesium.net> References: <4207E715.7060001@magnesium.net>
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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
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