Date: Mon, 20 Nov 2000 08:47:55 -0800 (PST) From: Matt Dillon <dillon@earth.backplane.com> To: Michael Lucas <mwlucas@blackhelicopters.org> Cc: stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: cd /usr/ports; make clean Message-ID: <200011201647.eAKGlt195958@earth.backplane.com> References: <20001118231633.A85206@evilcode.com> <200011190635.eAJ6ZRS94516@grumpy.dyndns.org> <20001118230305.A83848@evilcode.com> <20001119151138.A7434@bsdvm.jtjang.idv.tw> <200011192202.eAJM2cG03593@billy-club.village.org> <200011192239.eAJMdDa90818@earth.backplane.com> <200011192308.eAJN8q714360@whizzo.transsys.com> <200011192324.eAJNO1891133@earth.backplane.com> <20001120074553.A1776@blackhelicopters.org>
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:I just wrote two articles about the port system.
:
:(rummage, rummage, cut & paste)
:
:Probably the most useful option for maintainers of large FreeBSD
:networks is MASTER_SITE_OVERRIDE. The network administrator can build
:a central repository of important distfiles on a local server. The
:site listed in MASTER_SITE_OVERRIDE is checked for distfiles before
:any remote sites are contacted. This saves on exterior bandwidth and
:makes fetching distfiles more reliable.
:
:==ml
Can MASTER_SITE_OVERRIDE be a file path? Or does it have to be
a site?
-Matt
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