Date: Wed, 7 Jan 2015 11:09:01 +0000 (UTC) From: Mathieu Arnold <mat@FreeBSD.org> To: doc-committers@freebsd.org, svn-doc-all@freebsd.org, svn-doc-head@freebsd.org Subject: svn commit: r46154 - head/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/porters-handbook/makefiles Message-ID: <201501071109.t07B914p023939@svn.freebsd.org>
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Author: mat (ports committer) Date: Wed Jan 7 11:09:00 2015 New Revision: 46154 URL: https://svnweb.freebsd.org/changeset/doc/46154 Log: Add a note about what cannot go into MASTER_SITES. Reviewed by: bcr, wblock, erwin, bdrewery, ak Approved by: bcr Sponsored by: Absolight Modified: head/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/porters-handbook/makefiles/chapter.xml Modified: head/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/porters-handbook/makefiles/chapter.xml ============================================================================== --- head/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/porters-handbook/makefiles/chapter.xml Wed Jan 7 10:49:44 2015 (r46153) +++ head/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/porters-handbook/makefiles/chapter.xml Wed Jan 7 11:09:00 2015 (r46154) @@ -1632,6 +1632,17 @@ closest master site and fetching from there; having multiple sites will go a long way towards helping this effort.</para> + <important> + <para><varname>MASTER_SITES</varname> must not be blank. It + must point to the actual site hosting the distribution + files. It cannot point to web archives, or the &os; + distribution files cache sites. The only exception to this + rule is ports that do not have any distribution files. For + example, meta-ports do not have any distribution files, so + <varname>MASTER_SITES</varname> does not need to be + set.</para> + </important> + <para>If the original tarball is part of one of the popular archives such as SourceForge, GNU, or Perl CPAN, it may be possible refer to those sites in an easy compact form using
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