> > And the opposite problem: there isn't a distfile for
> > my package itself... but 'make' keeps trying to fetch
> > it from the default sites... how do I make this NOT
> > happen?
> 
> I'm curious, what package would not need to retrieve anything?

Taken from pkglint's Makefile

DISTNAME=               pkglint-2.04
CATEGORIES=             pkgtools devel
MASTER_SITES=           # empty
DISTFILES=              # empty

In general, any package which is small enough to include its sources
in ${FILESDIR}, and which we have control over.

Sorry for the ungrammatical tone of this answer - I'm slipping.

Regards,
Alistair