From owner-freebsd-ports Wed Dec 13 0: 8:46 2000 From owner-freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Dec 13 00:08:45 2000 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Received: from relay.nuxi.com (nuxi.cs.ucdavis.edu [169.237.7.38]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2FF8137B400 for ; Wed, 13 Dec 2000 00:08:45 -0800 (PST) Received: from dragon.nuxi.com (Ipittythefoolthattrustsident@trang.nuxi.com [209.152.133.57]) by relay.nuxi.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id AAA68477; Wed, 13 Dec 2000 00:08:43 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from obrien@NUXI.com) Received: (from obrien@localhost) by dragon.nuxi.com (8.11.1/8.11.1) id eBD88cp74267; Wed, 13 Dec 2000 00:08:38 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from obrien) Date: Wed, 13 Dec 2000 00:08:37 -0800 From: "David O'Brien" To: Joerg Wunsch Cc: freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: How to connect additional distribution files to a port? Message-ID: <20001213000837.C74111@dragon.nuxi.com> Reply-To: ports@FreeBSD.ORG References: <20001208151658.D22163@B7173150.DeutschePost.de> <20001208155822.A58038@cichlids.cichlids.com> <20001208160616.G22163@B7173150.DeutschePost.de> <20001208192741.A11933@ringworld.oblivion.bg> <20001211111404.C94175@ida.interface-business.de> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: <20001211111404.C94175@ida.interface-business.de>; from j@ida.interface-business.de on Mon, Dec 11, 2000 at 11:14:04AM +0100 X-Operating-System: FreeBSD 5.0-CURRENT Organization: The NUXI BSD group X-Pgp-Rsa-Fingerprint: B7 4D 3E E9 11 39 5F A3 90 76 5D 69 58 D9 98 7A X-Pgp-Rsa-Keyid: 1024/34F9F9D5 Sender: obrien@NUXI.com Sender: owner-freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On Mon, Dec 11, 2000 at 11:14:04AM +0100, J Wunsch wrote: > But i think it's fishy to ask some FTP server for a file where you > know beforehand it won't be there. No, sorry, i don't buy _that_. Well sorry, but that is how Ports committers have been doing it for a long time. Just stick both sites in MASTERSITE and don't bloat the CVS repo. That I don't buy. > ADDITIONAL_FILES= http://some.server.com/~user/foobar.pdf \ > ftp://some.other.server.ru/pub/outgoing/largedocs.tar.gz > > ...to specify additonal files to be fetched from various sites. IMHO, it isn't really worth the extra trouble. -- -- David (obrien@FreeBSD.org) GNU is Not Unix / Linux Is Not UniX To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-ports" in the body of the message