Robert Downes wrote:
> Where should I be looking for the definitive description of this
> configuration setting, or has it been removed from recent versions of
> FreeBSD?
To some extend, ports(7) describes the available options for the ports
collection. The ultimate reference, however, are the m
Kris Kennaway wrote:
On Sun, Apr 04, 2004 at 08:33:33AM +0100, Robert Downes wrote:
My make.conf file contains the line:
MASTER_SITE_OVERRIDE=ftp://ftp.uk.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/ports/distfiles
It's documented in /usr/ports/Mk/bsd.port.mk, together with most of
the other port-related vari
On Sun, Apr 04, 2004 at 08:33:33AM +0100, Robert Downes wrote:
> My make.conf file contains the line:
>
>
> MASTER_SITE_OVERRIDE=ftp://ftp.uk.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/ports/distfiles
>
> Someone gave me this line months ago when I asked how to instruct make
> to request files from local FTP s
Robert Downes wrote:
> MASTER_SITE_OVERRIDE=ftp://ftp.uk.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/ports/distfiles
>
> Someone gave me this line months ago when I asked how to instruct make
> to request files from local FTP servers (rather than dumping all
> requests on the master server).
>
> However, I can not
My make.conf file contains the line:
MASTER_SITE_OVERRIDE=ftp://ftp.uk.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/ports/distfiles
Someone gave me this line months ago when I asked how to instruct make
to request files from local FTP servers (rather than dumping all
requests on the master server).
However, I
