Date: Sun, 03 Aug 1997 14:14:32 +1000 From: David Nugent <davidn@unique.usn.blaze.net.au> To: hoek@hwcn.org Cc: current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: ports-current/packages-current discontinued Message-ID: <199708030414.OAA20765@unique.usn.blaze.net.au> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Sat, 02 Aug 1997 23:34:33 -0400." <Pine.GSO.3.96.970802231956.27450C-100000@james.freenet.hamilton.on.ca>
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> How does the ports system fail?
Yeah, I'd like to know too. I've never had a T1 on my desktop, but
it has always worked fine for me, either from CDROM or over the
internet, even at 14.4k as I personally was until recently. And I
rarely even use pre-built packages.
> Packages don't need sources. They are the moral equivalent to
> sysinstall adding only the binaries. When they do need sources,
> their's MASTER_SITE_OVERRIDE (which can be set to
> file://cdrom/distfiles). I've also always wanted an option to
> prevent bsd.port.mk from copying the fetched distfile insto
> ${DISTDIR}, so that could be added (necessary to prevent copying
> sources into /usr/ports/distfiles when
> MASTER_SITE_OVERRIDE=ftp://ftp.br.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/).
Doesn't a symbolic link from /usr/ports/distfiles to the CDROM work?
This is admittedly problematic if you keep your ports tree up to
date, but it's a reasonable workaround I've used occasionally. :)
Regards,
David
David Nugent - Unique Computing Pty Ltd - Melbourne, Australia
davidn@freebsd.org davidn@blaze.net.au http://www.blaze.net.au/~davidn/
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