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From: Sunpoet Po-Chuan Hsieh <sunpoet@FreeBSD.org>
To: Anton Shterenlikht <mexas@bristol.ac.uk>
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Subject: Re: porter handbook MASTER_SITES section outdated?
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On Sun, Jul 31, 2011 at 10:37:48PM +0100, Anton Shterenlikht wrote:
> In sec 5.4.2 MASTER_SITES in the porter handbook: 
> http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/porters-handbook/makefile-distfiles.html#AEN1512
> 
> the example given is:
> 
> MASTER_SITES=         ${MASTER_SITE_GNU}
> 
> However, sunpoet@ has just committed my patch
> changing my ${IGNORE_MASTER_SITE_XCONTRIB} and
> ${MASTER_SITE_LOCAL} to:
> 
> MASTER_SITES=   XCONTRIB/applications \
>                 http://seis.bris.ac.uk/~mexas/ \
>                 LOCAL/simon
> 
> Are both forms acceptable? Or is the form
> given in the porters handbook outdated?

Hi Anton,

I'm using the condensed format (the second grey box in that section).
It's more clear as the complex MASTER_SITES/MASTER_SITE_SUBDIR modifiers
(${foo:S///} and :foo) can be eliminated in your case.
Thanks.

Regards,
sunpoet