From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sun Apr 4 00:26:06 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E95A016A4CE for ; Sun, 4 Apr 2004 00:26:06 -0800 (PST) Received: from mta7.pltn13.pbi.net (mta7.pltn13.pbi.net [64.164.98.8]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D9B5243D58 for ; Sun, 4 Apr 2004 00:26:06 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from kris@obsecurity.org) Received: from obsecurity.dyndns.org (35b5b8271465045e0a274cb96d18e9b6@adsl-67-115-73-128.dsl.lsan03.pacbell.net [67.115.73.128])i348Q6iZ028741; Sun, 4 Apr 2004 00:26:06 -0800 (PST) Received: by obsecurity.dyndns.org (Postfix, from userid 1000) id DFF6D51C12; Sun, 4 Apr 2004 00:26:05 -0800 (PST) Date: Sun, 4 Apr 2004 00:26:05 -0800 From: Kris Kennaway To: Robert Downes Message-ID: <20040404082605.GA33009@xor.obsecurity.org> References: <406FBA4D.7020104@lineone.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="OXfL5xGRrasGEqWY" Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <406FBA4D.7020104@lineone.net> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.2.1i cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: MASTER_SITE_OVERRIDE in make.conf X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sun, 04 Apr 2004 08:26:07 -0000 --OXfL5xGRrasGEqWY Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Sun, Apr 04, 2004 at 08:33:33AM +0100, Robert Downes wrote: > My make.conf file contains the line: >=20 > =20 > MASTER_SITE_OVERRIDE=3Dftp://ftp.uk.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/ports/distfil= es >=20 > Someone gave me this line months ago when I asked how to instruct make=20 > to request files from local FTP servers (rather than dumping all=20 > requests on the master server). >=20 > However, I can not find a description for this line in any official=20 > literature. I have checked man make.conf, and there seems to be no mentio= n. >=20 > Where should I be looking for the definitive description of this=20 > configuration setting, or has it been removed from recent versions of=20 > FreeBSD? It's documented in /usr/ports/Mk/bsd.port.mk, together with most of the other port-related variables, and also in the default make.conf file (/etc/defaults/make.conf on 4.x, /usr/share/examples/etc/make.conf on 5.x) Kris --OXfL5xGRrasGEqWY Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.4 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQFAb8adWry0BWjoQKURArXSAJ9gjb03G80SpIskjvwFbVJkEVB0vwCffUJW dyUZSEe1w8liyoPqz2gD1g0= =NdGE -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --OXfL5xGRrasGEqWY--