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Date:      Thu, 12 Apr 2001 17:33:10 -0500 (CDT)
From:      Tim Zingelman <zingelman@fnal.gov>
To:        <freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG>
Subject:   Re: make release broken with too many ports/distfiles...
Message-ID:  <Pine.GSO.4.30.0104121730220.27872-100000@nova.fnal.gov>
In-Reply-To: <200104121113.NAA23060@lurza.secnetix.de>

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On Thu, 12 Apr 2001, Oliver Fromme wrote:

>  > So the quick answer is figure out what subset of distfiles I need, put
>  > them someplace other than /usr/ports/distfiles & set DOCDISTFILES.
>
> You could, of course, set up a simple FTP server on
> localhost, and let ``make release'' fetch the distfiles
> that it needs itself.  That's what I do, kind of.  ;-)
> So I never have to think about what distfiles it needs.
>
> (Requires a small hack to the release Makefile so that
> there's an appropriate setting for the MASTER_SITE in
> the chroot's make.conf.)

I set MASTER_SITE=file:/path_to_all_distfiles/, so I didn't even need to
setup ftp... thanks for the idea.

  - Tim


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