DIST_SUBDIR not working with MASTER_SITE_OVERRIDE

[Rick C. Petty]

On Wed, Jan 23, 2008 at 01:06:03PM +0200, cristi at roedu.net wrote:
> Hi everybody,
> 
> I recently wanted to install some gnome stuff from ports. In order to
> boost the download speed, I did something like this:
> 
>  make MASTER_SITE_OVERRIDE=ftp://ftp1.ro.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/distfiles/
> 
> as documented in the Handbook. However, many gnome packages seem to have
> DIST_SUBDIR in their Makefile, but MASTER_SITE_OVERRIDE doesn't care. This
> makes installing ports (with many dependencies) from known non-default
> sources very hard.

I used to do something similar to this by setting it in /etc/make.conf.
The only downside is if DIST_SUBDIR is not set you get paths that don't
look pretty, e.g.:
	ftp://ftp5.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/distfiles//some_distfile.tgz

Instead, I added something to my /etc/make.conf similar to:

.if defined(DIST_SUBDIR)
DIST_SUBDIR_OVERRIDE=${DIST_SUBDIR}/
.else
DIST_SUBDIR_OVERRIDE=
.endif
MASTER_SITE_OVERRIDE=ftp://ftp5.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/distfiles/${DIST_SUBDIR_OVERRIDE}


-- Rick C. Petty