From owner-cvs-all Sun Jun 18 15: 9:51 2000 Delivered-To: cvs-all@freebsd.org Received: from relay.nuxi.com (nuxi.cs.ucdavis.edu [169.237.7.38]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2783437B92B; Sun, 18 Jun 2000 15:09:44 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from obrien@NUXI.com) Received: from dragon.nuxi.com (root@trang.nuxi.com [209.152.133.57]) by relay.nuxi.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id PAA71228; Sun, 18 Jun 2000 15:09:37 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from obrien@dragon.nuxi.com) Received: (from obrien@localhost) by dragon.nuxi.com (8.9.3/8.9.1) id PAA00586; Sun, 18 Jun 2000 15:09:36 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from obrien) Date: Sun, 18 Jun 2000 15:09:36 -0700 From: "David O'Brien" To: Will Andrews Cc: "David O'Brien" , Satoshi Asami , cvs-committers@FreeBSD.org, cvs-all@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: cvs commit: ports/Mk bsd.sites.mk bsd.port.mk Message-ID: <20000618150936.A564@dragon.nuxi.com> Reply-To: obrien@FreeBSD.org References: <200006140214.TAA22236@freefall.freebsd.org> <20000618114423.A69372@hub.freebsd.org> <20000618151449.A452@argon.gryphonsoft.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2i In-Reply-To: <20000618151449.A452@argon.gryphonsoft.com>; from andrews@technologist.com on Sun, Jun 18, 2000 at 03:14:49PM -0400 X-Operating-System: FreeBSD 5.0-CURRENT Organization: The NUXI BSD group X-PGP-Fingerprint: B7 4D 3E E9 11 39 5F A3 90 76 5D 69 58 D9 98 7A X-Pgp-Keyid: 34F9F9D5 Sender: owner-cvs-all@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Sun, Jun 18, 2000 at 03:14:49PM -0400, Will Andrews wrote: > You should have spoke up a long time ago, when Maxim proposed this > addition. Now you're asking for another very large diff for little or > no benefit. I didn't realize there are no mirrors of sourceforge. > > The *big* advantage is one can look at a port's Makefile and cut-n-past > > the master site to check up on the distfile. Today there is an extra > > indirection thru bsd.sites.mk. > > And this is missed how, when you can simply use ``make fetch''? Uh... "check up on the distfiles" means see if there is a newer version. I didn't realize ``make fetch'' was smart enough to grap the latest version now. -- -- David (obrien@FreeBSD.org) To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe cvs-all" in the body of the message