Re: package with regularly changing distfiles

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

On Tue, Sep 20, 2011 at 09:37:07AM -0600, Brook Milligan wrote:
> After the freeze I will be committing several packages, one of which
> changes its distfiles regularly (i.e., monthly) and maintains no
> history.  The package need not be updated quite that regularly, so I
> am not concerned about the granularity of the packages themselves.
> However, I am concerned about populating the distfiles at
> ftp.netbsd.org so that the distfiles will be fetched from there once
> they are outdated on the main site.

Copy the distfile to MASTERSITE_LOCAL and use that directly.

Joerg