Right - I had meant this as an alternative to the MASTER_SITE_LOCAL, or
MASTER_SITE_GNU, or MASTER_SITE_X11 selections, not as a fully-fledged site
ordering.

Hmmmm.

Looks like a regular expression is definitely needed.

Toodle-pip,
Alistair


-----Original Message-----
From: Rene Hexel [mailto:rh@idle.trapdoor.vip.at]
Sent: Freitag, 18. Juni 1999 12:37
To: Alistair Crooks
Cc: 'Hubert Feyrer'; Martin J. Laubach; tech-pkg@netbsd.org; rh@vip.at
Subject: Re: Proposal: Sort order for MASTER_SITES


Alistair Crooks wrote:

> My suggestion would be to set up various definitions:
> 
> MASTER_SITE_AT?= ftp.at.netbsd.org
> MASTER_SITE_DE?= ftp.de.netbsd.org
> MASTER_SITE_CH?= ftp.ch.netbsd.org
> MASTER_SITE_UK?= ftp.demon.co.uk
> MASTER_SITE_US?= ftp.netbsd.org
> MASTER_SITE_JP?= ftp.jp.netbsd.org

  The advantage of this proposal is that this also works nicely for URLs
like 'ftp.netbsd.org' that do not explicitly contain the country the
download site is situated in.  On the downside, however, this means that
*all* packages have to be modified to explicitely contain the various
MASTER_SITE_XX definitions for their mirror sites!?

  Cheers
      ,
   Rene