Date: Sun, 3 Aug 1997 00:23:24 -0600 (MDT) From: Marc Slemko <marcs@znep.com> To: David Nugent <davidn@unique.usn.blaze.net.au> Cc: hoek@hwcn.org, current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: ports-current/packages-current discontinued Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.3.95.970803002229.12645a-100000@alive.znep.com> In-Reply-To: <199708030414.OAA20765@unique.usn.blaze.net.au>
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On Sun, 3 Aug 1997, David Nugent wrote:
> > 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. :)
A lndir should do the trick most of the time to keep /usr/ports/distfiles
pointing to the cdrom but still allow things to be updated.
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