Proposal: overridable bsd.sites.mk

[Michael Johnson]

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On Feb 7, 2005, at 7:42 PM, Adam Weinberger wrote:

> Edwin Groothuis wrote:
>> On Mon, Feb 07, 2005 at 06:31:09PM -0500, Adam Weinberger wrote:
>>> Edwin Groothuis wrote:
>>>
>>>> On Mon, Feb 07, 2005 at 05:22:08PM -0500, Adam Weinberger wrote:
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>> Edwin Groothuis wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>> On Mon, Feb 07, 2005 at 05:09:25PM -0500, Adam Weinberger wrote:
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>>> What do you guys think of changing the +='s in bsd.sites.mk to 
>>>>>>> ?='s? The deal is this: say I have a specific AfterStep dist 
>>>>>>> site that I want to use, and I don't want the default listed 
>>>>>>> sites to be attempted at all.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> As it stands now, there are two current solutions that I see:
>>>>>>> * edit bsd.sites.mk after every cvsup
>>>>>>> * put like 100 entries for that site in MASTER_SITE_AFTERSTEP
>>>>>>>  in /etc/make.conf and turn on RANDOMIZE_MASTER_SITES
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>> "say I have a specific AfterStep dist site that I want to use"
>>>>>>
>>>>>> That's *one* entry in /etc/make.conf.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Edwin
>>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> What one entry can you put in /etc/make.conf that forces 
>>>>> MASTER_SITE_AFTERSTEP to consist of one site, and one site only?
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> Oh, that way. This patch does:
>>>>
>>>> +.if !defined(IGNORE_MASTER_SITE_XORG)
>>>> MASTER_SITE_XORG+= \
>>>>       ftp://ftp.x.org/pub/%SUBDIR%/ \
>>>> 	ftp://ftp.gwdg.de/pub/x11/x.org/pub/%SUBDIR%/ \
>>>> [...]
>>>> +.endif
>>>>
>>>> Only 2x57 lines to be added, and it will not harm anybody else!
>>>>
>>>> (I would use this too to get rid of heanet.courseforge.net)
>>>>
>>>> Edwin
>>>
>>> How is that better than just letting people set any MASTER_SITE_* 
>>> they want explicitly?
>> Because I don't want to add all fourty other distsites if I just
>> have preferences over one to be tried first.
>> With the proposed change:
>>     You:
>> 	IGNORE_MASTER_SITE_XORG=yes
>> 	MASTER_SITE_XORG=http://z.x.y/
>>     Me:
>> 	MASTER_SITE_XORG=http://z.x.y/
>> Easy!
>> Edwin
>
> I'd suspect that more people would want to narrow down distsites to a 
> specific couple of sites, not add more onto the list.
>
> People Out There: if you could control the list of which sites 
> distfiles for, say, xorg stuff, are fetched from, would you rather add 
> to the list that's already there, or isolate particular sites you 
> prefer?
>

add more, only because I pick a handful of the fastest ones I like and 
add them to /etc/make.conf.
ie. I have MASTER_SITE_GNOME= http://ftp.gnome.org/pub/GNOME/%SUBDIR%/
in /etc/make.conf because it's the first updated mirror so I don't have 
to wait, and it's fast =)
I have similar for MASTER_SITE_XORG and more.

I think a good solution could be a tool similar to 
sysutils/fastest_cvsup that would go through each MASTER_SITE_XXX
and print the fastest of each and could easily be added to your own 
/etc/make.conf.

Michael

> # Adam
>
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