From owner-cvs-ports@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Mar 21 22:50:36 2006 Return-Path: X-Original-To: cvs-ports@FreeBSD.org Delivered-To: cvs-ports@FreeBSD.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 83E4316A420; Tue, 21 Mar 2006 22:50:36 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from kris@obsecurity.org) Received: from elvis.mu.org (elvis.mu.org [192.203.228.196]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0D04E43D48; Tue, 21 Mar 2006 22:50:36 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from kris@obsecurity.org) Received: from obsecurity.dyndns.org (elvis.mu.org [192.203.228.196]) by elvis.mu.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E32651A4DD7; Tue, 21 Mar 2006 14:50:35 -0800 (PST) Received: by obsecurity.dyndns.org (Postfix, from userid 1000) id 5920651BF0; Tue, 21 Mar 2006 17:50:33 -0500 (EST) Date: Tue, 21 Mar 2006 17:50:33 -0500 From: Kris Kennaway To: Renato Botelho Message-ID: <20060321225033.GA25375@xor.obsecurity.org> References: <200603211540.k2LFeQ4T055581@repoman.freebsd.org> <20060321164420.GA16788@xor.obsecurity.org> <44202EA9.40603@FreeBSD.org> <20060321221810.GA963@k7.mavetju> <44207C6F.6080602@FreeBSD.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="qDbXVdCdHGoSgWSk" Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <44207C6F.6080602@FreeBSD.org> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.2.1i Cc: "Simon L. Nielsen" , ports-committers@FreeBSD.org, Edwin Groothuis , cvs-all@FreeBSD.org, Kris Kennaway , cvs-ports@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: cvs commit: ports/Mk bsd.sites.mk X-BeenThere: cvs-ports@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: CVS commit messages for the ports tree List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 21 Mar 2006 22:50:36 -0000 --qDbXVdCdHGoSgWSk Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Tue, Mar 21, 2006 at 07:21:35PM -0300, Renato Botelho wrote: > Em 21/3/2006 19:18 Edwin Groothuis escreveu: > > On Tue, Mar 21, 2006 at 01:49:45PM -0300, Renato Botelho wrote: > >> Em 21/3/2006 13:44 Kris Kennaway escreveu: > >>> On Tue, Mar 21, 2006 at 03:40:26PM +0000, Renato Botelho wrote: > >>>> garga 2006-03-21 15:40:26 UTC > >>>> > >>>> FreeBSD ports repository > >>>> > >>>> Modified files: > >>>> Mk bsd.sites.mk=20 > >>>> Log: > >>>> be able to define favourite sourceforge download site just defining > >>>> =20 > >>>> MASTER_SITE_SOURCEFORGE_PREFERED=3Dxxx > >>>> =20 > >>>> on /etc/make.conf > >>>> =20 > >>>> PR: ports/94661 > >>>> Submitted by: edwin > >>> :( > >>> > >>> We already have facilities for sorting. > >> Simon sent me an email after my commit, until it I didn't know > >> MASTER_SORT facility. Now i agree with simon, it's a redundancy. > >=20 > > I think that, even with the existence of MASTER_SORT (which usage > > is not documented in the bsd.port.mk header, and which usage is not > > documented in the porters handbook), this is a much easier solution > > which will help a big group of users which have absolutely no idea > > how to use awk but are stuck with slow downloads from heanet. Even > > I use it now. The solution to users not knowing how to achieve this is to make well-placed "this is how to reprioritize sourceforge downloads" documentation, not to add more special case hacks to fetching that they also probably won't be aware of :-) Kris --qDbXVdCdHGoSgWSk Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.2.2 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQFEIIM4Wry0BWjoQKURAhA4AJ4sSq9McnluWOOcWJqBeW4f1glGmQCgqDEX To7oZ4W40TsNvUEYSEAs1v0= =qD38 -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --qDbXVdCdHGoSgWSk--