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Date:      Mon, 1 Aug 2011 14:25:24 +0800
From:      Sunpoet Po-Chuan Hsieh <sunpoet@FreeBSD.org>
To:        Anton Shterenlikht <mexas@bristol.ac.uk>
Cc:        freebsd-ports@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: porter handbook MASTER_SITES section outdated?
Message-ID:  <20110801062524.GI15520@bonjour.sunpoet.net>
In-Reply-To: <20110731213748.GA3533@mech-cluster241.men.bris.ac.uk>
References:  <20110731213748.GA3533@mech-cluster241.men.bris.ac.uk>

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On Sun, Jul 31, 2011 at 10:37:48PM +0100, Anton Shterenlikht wrote:
> In sec 5.4.2 MASTER_SITES in the porter handbook: 
> http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/porters-handbook/makefile-distfiles.html#AEN1512
> 
> the example given is:
> 
> MASTER_SITES=         ${MASTER_SITE_GNU}
> 
> However, sunpoet@ has just committed my patch
> changing my ${IGNORE_MASTER_SITE_XCONTRIB} and
> ${MASTER_SITE_LOCAL} to:
> 
> MASTER_SITES=   XCONTRIB/applications \
>                 http://seis.bris.ac.uk/~mexas/ \
>                 LOCAL/simon
> 
> Are both forms acceptable? Or is the form
> given in the porters handbook outdated?

Hi Anton,

I'm using the condensed format (the second grey box in that section).
It's more clear as the complex MASTER_SITES/MASTER_SITE_SUBDIR modifiers
(${foo:S///} and :foo) can be eliminated in your case.
Thanks.

Regards,
sunpoet



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