DIST_SUBDIR not working with MASTER_SITE_OVERRIDE

Brooks Davis brooks at freebsd.org
Wed Jan 23 08:10:22 PST 2008


On Wed, Jan 23, 2008 at 01:06:03PM +0200, cristi at roedu.net wrote:
> Hi everybody,
> 
> I recently wanted to install some gnome stuff from ports. In order to
> boost the download speed, I did something like this:
> 
>  make MASTER_SITE_OVERRIDE=ftp://ftp1.ro.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/distfiles/
> 
> as documented in the Handbook. However, many gnome packages seem to have
> DIST_SUBDIR in their Makefile, but MASTER_SITE_OVERRIDE doesn't care. This
> makes installing ports (with many dependencies) from known non-default
> sources very hard.

You just need to set MASTER_SITE_OVERRIDE in /etc/make.conf or
ports.conf like:

MASTER_SITE_OVERRIDE=ftp://ftp1.ro.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/distfiles/${DIST_SUBDIR}/

The Handbook should be updated.

> The following patch addresses this problem. As a side-effect, if somebody
> does not have distfiles structured as on a FreeBSD mirror (a rare case I
> would say) he will have to find a workaround.

IMO this patch is not a good idea because it would prevent someone from
building a more interesting distfile mirror.

-- Brooks

> --- bsd.port.mk.orig    2008-01-23 13:01:18.000000000 +0200
> +++ bsd.port.mk 2008-01-23 13:01:45.000000000 +0200
> @@ -2578,11 +2578,11 @@
>  # If the user has MASTER_SITE_FREEBSD set, go to the FreeBSD repository
>  # for everything, but don't search it twice by appending it to the end.
>  .if defined(MASTER_SITE_FREEBSD)
> -_MASTER_SITE_OVERRIDE:=        ${MASTER_SITE_BACKUP}
> +_MASTER_SITE_OVERRIDE:=        ${MASTER_SITE_BACKUP}/${DIST_SUBDIR}/
>  _MASTER_SITE_BACKUP:=  # empty
>  .else
> -_MASTER_SITE_OVERRIDE= ${MASTER_SITE_OVERRIDE}
> -_MASTER_SITE_BACKUP=   ${MASTER_SITE_BACKUP}
> +_MASTER_SITE_OVERRIDE= ${MASTER_SITE_OVERRIDE}/${DIST_SUBDIR}/
> +_MASTER_SITE_BACKUP=   ${MASTER_SITE_BACKUP}/${DIST_SUBDIR}/
>  .endif
> 
>  # Search CDROM first if mounted, symlink instead of copy if
> 
> 
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