From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Mar 19 14:11:48 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from student.cs.ucc.ie (student.cs.ucc.ie [143.239.211.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8631E37B718 for ; Mon, 19 Mar 2001 14:11:45 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from murphyv@student.cs.ucc.ie) Received: (from murphyv@localhost) by student.cs.ucc.ie (8.9.3/8.9.3) id WAA04547; Mon, 19 Mar 2001 22:08:21 GMT Date: Mon, 19 Mar 2001 22:08:21 +0000 From: Vincent D Murphy To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Cc: mij@osdn.com Subject: Re: distfiles downloading Message-ID: <20010319220821.A14669@student.cs.ucc.ie> References: <20010319211351.A12107@student.cs.ucc.ie> <20010319162058.B4739@guinness.osdn.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii User-Agent: Mutt/1.1.1i In-Reply-To: <20010319162058.B4739@guinness.osdn.com>; from mij@osdn.com on Mon, Mar 19, 2001 at 04:20:58PM -0500 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG = Jim Mock [20010319 2121]: > On Mon, 19 Mar 2001 at 21:13:51 +0000, Vincent D Murphy wrote: > > whenever i type /usr/ports/*/make install, i want to download the > > distfiles from ftp.uk.freebsd.org, not ftp.freebsd.org. > > > > how do i make this happen? > > Put the following in /etc/make.conf: > > MASTER_SITE_BACKUP?= \ > ftp://ftp.uk.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/ports/distfiles/${DIST_SUBDIR}/ > > MASTER_SITE_OVERRIDE?=${MASTER_SITE_BACKUP} thanks; that's exactly what i wanted. in case the relevant ears are listening: - the install should ask me whether to do this (after picking a country or other freebsd mirror) and do it. - this should be in the FAQ. everybody probably wants to download stuff from somewhere other than ftp.freebsd.org; it's a shame not to put that fabulous mirror network and country-level subdomain organisation to good use. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message