Subject: Re: correct override for MASTER_SITES?
To: Andrew Gillham <gillhaa@ghost.whirlpool.com>
From: Andrew Gillham <gillhaa@ghost.whirlpool.com>
List: current-users
Date: 03/08/1998 21:39:37
Andrew Gillham writes:
> Alan Barrett writes:
> > > What is the correct way to override MASTER_SITES in /etc/mk.conf?
> >
> > Set MASTER_SITE_OVERRIDE in /etc/mk.conf. Then bsd.port.mk will prepend
> > MASTER_SITE_OVERRIDE to the predefined list of MASTER_SITES.
> >
> > --apb (Alan Barrett)
>
> Thanks. That does seem to work as expected. I had in it my mk.conf,
> but commented out, as the first time I tried it, is wasn't working
> correctly. Hmm, I should have checked it again.
Ok, so are we meant to update our 1.3 bsd.port.mk, and bsd.port.subdir.mk
with those from -current? After doing some testing on my 1.3 machine,
I find that MASTER_SITE_OVERRIDE doesn't work, unless I update my
/usr/share/mk/bsd.port.* from -current. Is this correct, or will there
be problems?
-Andrew
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