cvs commit: ports/Mk bsd.sites.mk

[Kris Kennaway]

On Tue, Mar 21, 2006 at 07:21:35PM -0300, Renato Botelho wrote:
> Em 21/3/2006 19:18 Edwin Groothuis escreveu:
> > On Tue, Mar 21, 2006 at 01:49:45PM -0300, Renato Botelho wrote:
> >> Em 21/3/2006 13:44 Kris Kennaway escreveu:
> >>> On Tue, Mar 21, 2006 at 03:40:26PM +0000, Renato Botelho wrote:
> >>>> garga       2006-03-21 15:40:26 UTC
> >>>>
> >>>>   FreeBSD ports repository
> >>>>
> >>>>   Modified files:
> >>>>     Mk                   bsd.sites.mk 
> >>>>   Log:
> >>>>   be able to define favourite sourceforge download site just defining
> >>>>   
> >>>>   MASTER_SITE_SOURCEFORGE_PREFERED=xxx
> >>>>   
> >>>>   on /etc/make.conf
> >>>>   
> >>>>   PR:             ports/94661
> >>>>   Submitted by:   edwin
> >>> :(
> >>>
> >>> We already have facilities for sorting.
> >> Simon sent me an email after my commit, until it I didn't know
> >> MASTER_SORT facility. Now i agree with simon, it's a redundancy.
> > 
> > I think that, even with the existence of MASTER_SORT (which usage
> > is not documented in the bsd.port.mk header, and which usage is not
> > documented in the porters handbook), this is a much easier solution
> > which will help a big group of users which have absolutely no idea
> > how to use awk but are stuck with slow downloads from heanet. Even
> > I use it now.

The solution to users not knowing how to achieve this is to make
well-placed "this is how to reprioritize sourceforge downloads"
documentation, not to add more special case hacks to fetching that
they also probably won't be aware of :-)

Kris
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