From owner-svn-doc-head@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Jan 7 11:09:01 2015 Return-Path: Delivered-To: svn-doc-head@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:1900:2254:206a::19:1]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher AECDH-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 50C0DE1D; Wed, 7 Jan 2015 11:09:01 +0000 (UTC) Received: from svn.freebsd.org (svn.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:1900:2254:2068::e6a:0]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384 (256/256 bits)) (Client did not present a certificate) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 3CB5A66B67; Wed, 7 Jan 2015 11:09:01 +0000 (UTC) Received: from svn.freebsd.org ([127.0.1.70]) by svn.freebsd.org (8.14.9/8.14.9) with ESMTP id t07B91Nj023940; Wed, 7 Jan 2015 11:09:01 GMT (envelope-from mat@FreeBSD.org) Received: (from mat@localhost) by svn.freebsd.org (8.14.9/8.14.9/Submit) id t07B914p023939; Wed, 7 Jan 2015 11:09:01 GMT (envelope-from mat@FreeBSD.org) Message-Id: <201501071109.t07B914p023939@svn.freebsd.org> X-Authentication-Warning: svn.freebsd.org: mat set sender to mat@FreeBSD.org using -f From: Mathieu Arnold Date: Wed, 7 Jan 2015 11:09:01 +0000 (UTC) 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 X-SVN-Group: doc-head MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-BeenThere: svn-doc-head@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.18-1 Precedence: list List-Id: SVN commit messages for the doc tree for head List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 07 Jan 2015 11:09:01 -0000 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. + + MASTER_SITES 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 + MASTER_SITES does not need to be + set. + + 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