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Date:      Sun, 4 Apr 2004 00:26:05 -0800
From:      Kris Kennaway <kris@obsecurity.org>
To:        Robert Downes <nullentropy@lineone.net>
Cc:        freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: MASTER_SITE_OVERRIDE in make.conf
Message-ID:  <20040404082605.GA33009@xor.obsecurity.org>
In-Reply-To: <406FBA4D.7020104@lineone.net>
References:  <406FBA4D.7020104@lineone.net>

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On Sun, Apr 04, 2004 at 08:33:33AM +0100, Robert Downes wrote:
> My make.conf file contains the line:
>=20
>   =20
> MASTER_SITE_OVERRIDE=3Dftp://ftp.uk.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/ports/distfil=
es
>=20
> Someone gave me this line months ago when I asked how to instruct make=20
> to request files from local FTP servers (rather than dumping all=20
> requests on the master server).
>=20
> However, I can not find a description for this line in any official=20
> literature. I have checked man make.conf, and there seems to be no mentio=
n.
>=20
> Where should I be looking for the definitive description of this=20
> configuration setting, or has it been removed from recent versions of=20
> FreeBSD?

It's documented in /usr/ports/Mk/bsd.port.mk, together with most of
the other port-related variables, and also in the default make.conf
file (/etc/defaults/make.conf on 4.x,
/usr/share/examples/etc/make.conf on 5.x)

Kris
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