From owner-freebsd-ports Tue Dec 12 1:30:39 2000 From owner-freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Dec 12 01:30:37 2000 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Received: from ida.interface-business.de (ida.interface-business.de [193.101.57.9]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6764B37B402 for ; Tue, 12 Dec 2000 01:30:36 -0800 (PST) Received: (from j@localhost) by ida.interface-business.de id eBC9UNO98713 for freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG; Tue, 12 Dec 2000 10:30:23 +0100 (MET) Date: Tue, 12 Dec 2000 10:30:23 +0100 From: J Wunsch To: freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: How to connect additional distribution files to a port? Message-ID: <20001212103023.A98669@ida.interface-business.de> Reply-To: Joerg Wunsch 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> <20001211175846.V86825@elvis.mu.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 1.0i In-Reply-To: <20001211175846.V86825@elvis.mu.org>; from billf@mu.org on Mon, Dec 11, 2000 at 05:58:47PM -0600 X-Phone: +49-351-31809-14 X-PGP-Fingerprint: DC 47 E6 E4 FF A6 E9 8F 93 21 E0 7D F9 12 D6 4E Organization: interface systems GmbH, Dresden Sender: owner-freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org As Bill Fumerola wrote: > > 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}/... Sorry, i can't follow you. That was _exactly_ my concern, a port which has to collect files from different `master sites', where each of the sites has only one of the files required. I don't understand how this situation could ``scale'' in any way at all, sorry. Compared to MASTER_SITE=http://some.server.com/~user/ \ ftp://some.other.sever.ru/pub/outgoing/ DISTFILES=foobar.pdf largedocs.tar.gz my proposal at least prevents master sites from being asked for the wrong files (e. g. http://some.server.com/~user/largedocs.tar.gz). While the difference is certainly marginal, i consider it bad behaviour to intentionally ask someone for a file you know you don't even want to get from him, and in the worst case, the some.other.server.ru FTP server might even have a foobar.pdf file around which is something totally different than what we want (e. g. since the filename has been chosen poorly)! -- J"org Wunsch Unix support engineer joerg_wunsch@interface-systems.de http://www.interface-systems.de/~j To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-ports" in the body of the message