Date: Thu, 27 Jan 2000 17:15:32 +0100 From: Udo Schweigert <ust@cert.siemens.de> To: freebsd-ports@netscum.dk Cc: freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: ports DISTNAME/distfiles question(s)... Message-ID: <20000127171532.A41080@alaska.cert.siemens.de> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.3.96.1000127165045.23374F-100000@MEOWVAX.INT.TELE.DK>; from FLUFFEE@fluffy.gets.an.analprobe.dk on Tue, Mar 04, 2036 at 11:36:30PM %2B0100 References: <Pine.BSF.3.96.1000127165045.23374F-100000@MEOWVAX.INT.TELE.DK>
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On Tue, Mar 04, 2036 at 23:36:30 +0100, I am not any sort of Fluffy wrote: > Howdy y'awl > > I've got a question or three, okay? It's like this: > > I'm trying to build a bunch of ports by giving the command (so > as to overload the line to the local mirror with all the distfiles > rather than going outside).... > > make MASTER_SITE_OVERRIDE=ftp://ftp.dk.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/distfiles/ > > Most of the time it works great (say, for bash). > Sometimes it doesn't. I trust that what I am doing is right? > > Where it fails is when the actual distfiles are in a subdirectory > of the site's distfiles directory mirror. Take, f'rinstance, > X11, called for when I'm trying to build cvsup. > > The X11 src.tgz files are in subdirectory `xc' under distfiles. > One of the XFree86 Makefiles has this directory as `DISTNAME'. > > On the other hand, some other ports have DISTNAME and PKGNAME > the same. On the third hand, something like `xemacs', which > exists as a subdirectory under `distfiles', didn't exist by > itself in the Makefile I looked at (but I didn't look too > closely). > > So, the question: > Just how do these subdirectories under `distfiles', if present, > get specified in the Makefile? And what is the point of the > different DISTNAME and PKGNAME and DISTFILES, so that if > something is b0rken, I can attempt to fix it? > > This is probably all answered somewhere, so if you would be > so kind as to point me to it, I'll show my gratitude by doing > a bunch o' greppin' an' scratchin' and try to fix as best I > can the ports that don't properly compile given the above > commandline. > > Otherwise, give me a better generic commandline to get the > files out of the local distfiles mirror. Now I have to > specify the desired subdirectory when the command without it > fails, and that's not nice. I'd guess these subdirectories > are a somewhat recent addition? > Have a look at /etc/make.conf: # If you want your port fetches to go somewhere else than the default # (specified below) in case the distfile/patchfile was not found, # uncomment this and change it to a location nearest you. (Don't # remove the "/${DIST_SUBDIR}/" part.) # #MASTER_SITE_BACKUP?= \ # ftp://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/ports/distfiles/${DIST_SUBDIR}/ # So with make MASTER_SITE_OVERRIDE=ftp://ftp.dk.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/distfiles/${DIST_SUBDIR}/ you win again. Regards -- Udo Schweigert, Siemens AG | Voice : +49 89 636 42170 ZT IK 3, Siemens CERT | Fax : +49 89 636 41166 D-81730 Muenchen / Germany | email : ust@cert.siemens.de PGP-2/5 fingerprint | 2A 53 F6 A6 30 59 64 02 6B C4 E0 73 B2 C9 6C E7 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-ports" in the body of the message
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