Re: A new package fetching utility, pkg_get

[Oliver Fromme]

Daniel C. Sobral wrote in list.freebsd-hackers:
 > Jaakko Salomaa wrote:
 > > It's designed to be easy to use, so it first checks -s parameter, then
 > > PKGSERVER environment variable, then the machine's toplevel domain. If the
 > > toplevel domain contains only two letters it attemps to use
 > > ftp.<tld>.freebsd.org, else it defaults to ftp.freebsd.org and prompts
 > > whether the user wants to use it.
 > 
 > Well... that's better than directing all users of the world
 > automatically to ftp.freebsd.org. :-)

How about extracting the server name from the MASTER_SITE
specified in /etc/make.conf{,.local}?

Regards
   Oliver

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