what to do when MASTER_SITE_SUBDIR differs?

[Oliver Eikemeier]

Roman Neuhauser wrote:

> # mike at skew.org / 2004-06-22 03:55:59 -0600:
> 
>>The primary distribution site for the source of the package I'm working 
>>re-porting is the developers' own site, and they (OK, we) use SourceForge
>>as a secondary distribution point. I'd like to list both the home site and 
>>SourceForge in the MASTER_SITES.
>>
>>The convention seems to be that when using ${MASTER_SITE_SOURCEFORGE},
>>MASTER_SITE_SUBDIR is set to the SF project name.
>>
>>But in this case, the subdirs don't match between the two sites, due
>>to SourceForge forbidding leading numbers in project names.
>>
>>So I am not sure how to do this. I don't really see much precedent for 
>>foregoing MASTER_SITE_SUBDIR and just doing something like
>>
>>MASTER_SITES=   ftp://ftp.4suite.org/pub/4Suite/ \
>>                ${MASTER_SITE_SOURCEFORGE}/foursuite/
>>
>>...but would that be acceptable?
> 
>     no, and it woudn't be needed either. this will do what you want:
> 
> MASTER_SITES=	ftp://ftp.4suite.org/pub/4Suite/ \
> 		${MASTER_SITE_SOURCEFORGE}
> MASTER_SITE_SUBDIR=	foursuite

... or use the :n notation:
  <http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/porters-handbook/makefile-distfiles.html#PORTS-MASTER-SITES-N-EXAMPLE-DETAILED-USE-MASTER-SITE-SUBDIR>

-Oliver