Date: Sun, 23 Feb 1997 21:26:42 -0800 From: "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@time.cdrom.com> To: John Fieber <jfieber@indiana.edu> Cc: ports@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Here's a radical idea... Message-ID: <8015.856762002@time.cdrom.com> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Sun, 23 Feb 1997 23:47:06 EST." <Pine.BSF.3.95q.970223233831.12505J-100000@fallout.campusview.indiana.edu>
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> ...but having ports fall over is useful in its own strange way: > it helps keep ports from getting stale. To this end, maybe there > should be a special debugging fetch target that doesn't ever go > to ftp.freebsd.org. A make fetch on the whole ports tree in this > "debug" mode is run periodically, and email is automagically sent > to the MAINTAINER if something is amiss. How about changing the default value of MASTER_SITE_FREEBSD? Right now, it's a boolean which says "spam the existing site list with ftp://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/distfiles/.." (or, as it's called in bsd.port.mk, ${MASTER_SITE_BACKUP}). That's done by setting MASTER_SITE_OVERRIDE, which essentially turns on exactly the behavior we want when MASTER_SITE_FREEBSD is defined. I therefore propose that we simply add this: .if !defined(NO_MASTER_SITE) MASTER_SITE_FREEBSD="Yes, always please." .endif To bsd.port.mk and turn it on by default. If someone still wants to override the "master site" behavior, whatever that might be, they can build with NO_MASTER_SITE=yes. Jordan
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