porter handbook MASTER_SITES section outdated?

[Anton Shterenlikht]

On Mon, Aug 01, 2011 at 10:42:13AM -0400, b. f. wrote:
> > In sec 5.4.2 MASTER_SITES in the porter handbook:
> > http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/porters-handbook/makefile-distfiles.html#AEN1512
> >
> > the example given is:
> >
> > MASTER_SITES=         ${MASTER_SITE_GNU}
> >
> > However, sunpoet@ has just committed my patch
> > changing my ${IGNORE_MASTER_SITE_XCONTRIB} and
> > ${MASTER_SITE_LOCAL} to:
> >
> > MASTER_SITES=   XCONTRIB/applications \
> >                 http://seis.bris.ac.uk/~mexas/ \
> >                 LOCAL/simon
> >
> > Are both forms acceptable? Or is the form
> > given in the porters handbook outdated?
> 
> Yes. No.  He is just making use of an abbreviation that is translated
> into the full urls by the macros at the end of ports/Mk/bsd.sites.mk.
> You can do the same in your own submissions, but you should check that
> they actually work by using "make fetch-urlall-list" or the like.

Thank you, very useful target.

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