Date: Wed, 20 May 1998 17:16:04 +0200 From: Eivind Eklund <eivind@yes.no> To: Peter Hawkins <thepish@FreeBSD.ORG>, Satoshi Asami <asami@FreeBSD.ORG> Cc: cvs-committers@FreeBSD.ORG, ports@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/share/mk Makefile Message-ID: <19980520171604.42978@follo.net> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.3.96.980521002219.16670C-100000@dana.clari.net.au>; from Peter Hawkins on Thu, May 21, 1998 at 12:29:45AM %2B1000 References: <199805201050.DAA17387@baloon.mimi.com> <Pine.BSF.3.96.980521002219.16670C-100000@dana.clari.net.au>
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On Thu, May 21, 1998 at 12:29:45AM +1000, Peter Hawkins wrote: > >(2) Many of the mirrors don't carry distfiles, or have incomplete > > sets. Hiding the list from the user (I'm assuming make.conf is > > visible and bsd.*.mk are not) is just plain wrong. > > OK - it will try them and then move on as it stands but empty sites could > be removed from the list too. Partly empty sites get tried then make > moves on. Even so it's faster by FAR for us non-usa makers. Yes I could > tweek MASTER_SITE_BACKUP, but how do I get to insert a site to look in > *before* it ducks off to sunsite or wherever? MASTER_SITE_OVERRIDE It is documented in /etc/make.conf - but I still think that providing good guesses at which sites you'd want in this is a good change. Eivind. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe cvs-all" in the body of the message
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