From owner-freebsd-stable Mon Nov 20 8:48:39 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from earth.backplane.com (earth-nat-cw.backplane.com [208.161.114.67]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 55E2A37B479 for ; Mon, 20 Nov 2000 08:48:36 -0800 (PST) Received: (from dillon@localhost) by earth.backplane.com (8.11.1/8.9.3) id eAKGlt195958; Mon, 20 Nov 2000 08:47:55 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from dillon) Date: Mon, 20 Nov 2000 08:47:55 -0800 (PST) From: Matt Dillon Message-Id: <200011201647.eAKGlt195958@earth.backplane.com> To: Michael Lucas Cc: stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: cd /usr/ports; make clean 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> Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG :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 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message