Proposal: unification of distfiles for FreeBSD and NetBSD

Jeremy C. Reed reed at reedmedia.net
Thu Apr 3 12:54:00 PST 2003


> One workaround would be for you to make your own local FTP mirror of your
> already-downloaded distfiles (like
> ftp://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/distfiles/) and then, for NetBSD, add it
> to your MASTER_SITE_BACKUP.

Don't make it the MASTER_SITE_BACKUP -- that will be later. Make it fetch
from it first. Maybe set that (for NetBSD) with MASTER_SITE_OVERRIDE.

   Jeremy C. Reed
   http://bsd.reedmedia.net/



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