On Thu, Apr 25, 2002 at 12:13:44PM +0100, David Brownlee wrote:
> > My bad: the distfile was in pkgtools/LOCAL_PORTS/pkg_install. And
> > as luck would have it as soon as I got the distfile, the master
> > ftp site was back.
> >
> 	Did the ftp automatically fail over to a mirror site and
> 	try to download from the wrong location?
> 
> > on a related note, how do I configure a different ftp site, either
> > on a per-install basis or permanently?
> 
> 	Probably via MASTER_SITE_OVERRIDE - see packages(4)

And pkgsrc/mk/bsd.pkg.defaults.mk; the example for the french mirror.
These are the settings I use here.

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Manuel Bouyer <bouyer@antioche.eu.org>
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