[Posted here again to make answers of Hubert more likely.]

Roland Illig wrote on pkgsrc-bulk:
> After a hard time finding out what the several variables in the 
> bulk.conf file do, I'd like to rename some of them (as usual). The patch 
> I propose to build.conf-example is:
> 
> ----snip----
> -# Some paths for output files and paths to log files
> -FTPx=`date +%Y%m%d.%H%M`
> -FTPURL="pub/NetBSD/pkgstat/${FTPx}"            # relative to ~ftp !
> -FTP="/home/ftp/${FTPURL}"                      # absolute base path
> -FTPHOST="ftp://ftp.machi.ne"                   # host for broken.html
> +# REPORT_DIR is the directory on the build machine where the
> +# report files are copied to. Uploading these files to a public FTP or
> +# HTTP server must be done manually. REPORT_URL is the URL where the
> +# report files will be reachable after uploading. This URL is only used
> +# for being printed in the text/plain report. bc_common_path is a helper
> +# variable and is not examined by the bulk build programs.
> +bc_common_path="`date +%Y%m%d.%H%M`"
> +REPORT_DIR="$HOME/bulk-reports/${bc_common_path}"
> +REPORT_URL="ftp://my.ftp.server.local/pub/NetBSD/pkgstat/${bc_common_path}" 
> 
> ----snip----
> 
> Is it correct that using REPORT_URL="${FTPHOST}/${FTPURL}" and 
> REPORT_DIR="${FTP}" would provide the needed backwards compatibility, or 
> have I overseen anything?
> 
> ----snip----
> -
> -########################################################################### 
> 
> -### No changes should be needed below this line !!!
> -########################################################################### 
> 
> -
> -# Name of the (generated) HTML file which lists all broken pkgs
> -REPORT="$FTP/broken.html"
> ----snip----
> 
> I think this variable should be placed into bsd.pkg-bulk.mk into the 
> section where the other variables for files in ${BULKFILESDIR} live. The 
> report should be generated in that directory, too, and only later be 
> copied to the REPORT_DIR, together with all the other files.

Roland