DIST_SUBDIR not working with MASTER_SITE_OVERRIDE

[Doug Barton]

On Wed, 23 Jan 2008, Rick C. Petty wrote:

> 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.
>
> I used to do something similar to this by setting it in /etc/make.conf.
> The only downside is if DIST_SUBDIR is not set you get paths that don't
> look pretty, e.g.:
> 	ftp://ftp5.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/distfiles//some_distfile.tgz
>
> Instead, I added something to my /etc/make.conf similar to:
>
> .if defined(DIST_SUBDIR)
> DIST_SUBDIR_OVERRIDE=${DIST_SUBDIR}/
> .else
> DIST_SUBDIR_OVERRIDE=
> .endif
> MASTER_SITE_OVERRIDE=ftp://ftp5.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/distfiles/${DIST_SUBDIR_OVERRIDE}

IMO it would be a lot more intuitive if the ports infrastructure did 
exactly this for the user.

Doug

-- 

     This .signature sanitized for your protection