cvsup doc-all

Gert Cuykens gert.cuykens at gmail.com
Fri Jan 28 00:04:56 PST 2005


On Fri, 28 Jan 2005 09:51:07 +0200, Giorgos Keramidas
<keramida at ceid.upatras.gr> wrote:
> Yep.  If you think a bit about it, you will see it makes more sense.
> What is it that you download with src-all?  The "sources of the system".
> The "doc-all" collection downloads "the sources of the documentation".

aha but all docs will be updated when you do a buildworld right ?

> Look at `/usr/ports/Mk/bsd.sites.mk'.  It has a huge list of sites where
> port distfiles are downloaded from.  You can tweak this list by setting
> similar variables in your `/etc/make.conf' file, i.e.:
> 
>         MASTER_SITE_GNU?=       ftp://ftp.ntua.gr/pub/gnu/%SUBDIR%/
> 
> Note the "conditional assignment" with ?= there.  The 'make.conf' file
> should very rarely set things unconditionally, with "FOO=bar".

so basicly you dont have to worry about ports server because it will
find the best server by it self ?

why does cvsup not work the same way ?


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