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Subject: Re: ports/distfiles structuring
From: asami@cs.berkeley.edu (Satoshi Asami)
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 * It seemed that distfiles is filled now with a flat bunch of tar.gz
 * balls plus a ports-like tree. I'm not sure if this is still a mess
 * with me here due to mirroring and suping or what mighht be the cause.

That's the new variable DIST_SUBDIR at work. :)

When this is set, the distfiles for that port is put into that
subdirectory of /usr/ports/distfiles.  It will also look into the same
subdirectory of ftp.freebsd.org's backup distfiles dir.  This is for
ports that have many distfiles or have distfiles that have a very
generic name (`Makefile', etc.).

It shouldn't increase the size of your port tree, unless I forget to
delete something from freefall's /usr/ports/distfiles.  Let me know if 
you find duplicates.

Satoshi