- How-To-Repeat: setenv NEARBY_DISTFILES_SITE ftp://my_local_provider.net//bla/distfiles make fetch
> setenv NEARBY_DISTFILES_SITE ftp://my_local_provider.net//bla/distfiles How is this any different than the existing: setenv MASTER_SITE_OVERRIDE ftp://my_local_provider.net//bla/distfiles ?? Jordan
On Sun, 20 Apr 1997 jhs@freebsd.org wrote: > + MASTER_SITES:= ${NEARBY_DISTFILES_SITE}/ ${MASTER_SITES} > + PATCH_SITES:= ${NEARBY_DISTFILES_SITE}/ ${MASTER_SITES} > + .endif Sounds like a good idea, but doesn't MASTER_SITE_OVERRIDE already do this ? .if !defined(MASTER_SITE_OVERRIDE) MASTER_SITES+= ${MASTER_SITE_BACKUP} PATCH_SITES+= ${MASTER_SITE_BACKUP} .else MASTER_SITES:= ${MASTER_SITE_OVERRIDE} ${MASTER_SITES} PATCH_SITES:= ${MASTER_SITE_OVERRIDE} ${PATCH_SITES} .endif ${MASTER_SITE_OVERRIDE} doesn't (as I once thought) override ${MASTER_SITES}, it just prepends the one you name to the defined list. -- j.
State Changed From-To: open->closed Equivalent functionality already provided as MASTER_SITE_OVERRIDE.