From owner-freebsd-ports Wed Jun 26 16:08:31 1996 Return-Path: owner-ports Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id QAA01439 for ports-outgoing; Wed, 26 Jun 1996 16:08:31 -0700 (PDT) Received: from palmer.demon.co.uk (palmer.demon.co.uk [158.152.50.150]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with ESMTP id QAA01425; Wed, 26 Jun 1996 16:08:16 -0700 (PDT) Received: from palmer.demon.co.uk (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by palmer.demon.co.uk (sendmail/PALMER-2) with ESMTP id AAA27308; Thu, 27 Jun 1996 00:03:51 +0100 (BST) To: Chuck Robey cc: ports@FreeBSD.ORG, jkh@FreeBSD.ORG From: "Gary Palmer" Subject: Re: MASTER_SITES In-reply-to: Your message of "Wed, 26 Jun 1996 18:44:50 EDT." Date: Thu, 27 Jun 1996 00:03:50 +0100 Message-ID: <27306.835830230@palmer.demon.co.uk> Sender: owner-ports@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk Chuck Robey wrote in message ID : > On Wed, 26 Jun 1996, Gary Palmer wrote: > > I'm not quite sure when this crept in, but it seems like > > ftp.freebsd.org is ALWAYS checked first before the site defined in the > > Makefile for the port ... is this the desired behaviour? Have I missed > > something? Seems to be the reverse of what I remember happening in the > > past, and (IMHO) wrong ... (Or this this some attempt to bump FreeBSD > > up the wcarchive transfer ratings? :-) ) > Amazing. This must be real recent! Please give one example (port name) > of this! Umm. e.g.: root@thud:/usr/ports/japanese/gawk> make fetch >> gawk-2.15.6.tar.gz doesn't seem to exist on this system. >> ftp://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/distfiles// ftp://gatekeeper.dec.com/pub/GNU/ (the above line I put into bsd.port.mk to try and figure things out ... wierd :-( ) >> Attempting to fetch from ftp://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/distfiles//. Receiving gawk-2.15.6.tar.gz (520032 bytes): 100% 520032 bytes transfered in 3.1 seconds (166.20 K/s) >> gawk-2.15.6-mb1.04.diff.gz doesn't seem to exist on this system. >> Attempting to fetch from ftp://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/distfiles//. Receiving gawk-2.15.6-mb1.04.diff.gz (38722 bytes): 100% 38722 bytes transfered in 0.4 seconds (94.65 K/s) This is with a bsd.port.mk which is straight from the CVS repo. Gary -- Gary Palmer FreeBSD Core Team Member FreeBSD: Turning PC's into workstations. See http://www.FreeBSD.ORG/ for info