Re: uploading distfiles

[Joerg Sonnenberger <joerg%bec.de@localhost>]

On Wed, Aug 21, 2019 at 10:03:02PM +0200, Juraj Lutter wrote:
> On Wed, Aug 21, 2019 at 09:08:27PM +0200, Hauke Fath wrote:
> > At 12:06 Uhr -0600 21.08.2019, Brook Milligan wrote:
> > >One point about (La)TeX packages is that by default they are not retrieved
> > >from CTAN, but only from places like ftp.nebsd.org.  Consequently,
> > >creating a package requires not just the normal package files (e.g.,
> > >Makefile, etc.) but also uploading the distfile.  This raises several
> > >questions:
> > >
> > >- How does one actually do the uploading manually?
> > 
> > As a developer, 'make upload-distfiles' from the package directory - see
> > mk/misc/developer.mk.
> 
> 
> There I see one possible area to improve:
> 
> ssh_cmd="ssh -l ${NETBSD_LOGIN_NAME} $${disthost}";
> 
> This can also be extended with like ${NETBSD_SSH_KEY} in case when the default
> one could not be found or even "ssh" command could be parametrized.

You can put those things into .ssh/config.

Joerg