Date: Mon, 11 Dec 2000 17:58:47 -0600 From: Bill Fumerola <billf@mu.org> To: Joerg Wunsch <joerg_wunsch@interface-systems.de> Cc: freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: How to connect additional distribution files to a port? Message-ID: <20001211175846.V86825@elvis.mu.org> In-Reply-To: <20001211111404.C94175@ida.interface-business.de>; from j@ida.interface-business.de on Mon, Dec 11, 2000 at 11:14:04AM %2B0100 References: <20001208151658.D22163@B7173150.DeutschePost.de> <20001208155822.A58038@cichlids.cichlids.com> <20001208160616.G22163@B7173150.DeutschePost.de> <20001208192741.A11933@ringworld.oblivion.bg> <20001211111404.C94175@ida.interface-business.de>
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On Mon, Dec 11, 2000 at 11:14:04AM +0100, J Wunsch wrote: > But i think it's fishy to ask some FTP server for a file where you > know beforehand it won't be there. No, sorry, i don't buy _that_. > MASTER_SITES should IMHO only be used to specify alternative servers > for getting an otherwise identical fileset. Maybe we should have > something like > > ADDITIONAL_FILES= http://some.server.com/~user/foobar.pdf \ > ftp://some.other.server.ru/pub/outgoing/largedocs.tar.gz > > ...to specify additonal files to be fetched from various sites. This scales equally as poor as the current system, but for different reasons. Consider one file that comes from ${MASTER_SITE_FOO}/... and another that comes from ${MASTER_SITE_BAR}/... -- Bill Fumerola - security yahoo / Yahoo! inc. - fumerola@yahoo-inc.com / billf@FreeBSD.org To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-ports" in the body of the message
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