svn commit: r46154 - head/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/porters-handbook/makefiles
Mathieu Arnold <[email protected]>
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Author: mat (ports committer)
Date: Wed Jan 7 11:09:00 2015
New Revision: 46154
URL: https://svnweb.freebsd.org/changeset/doc/46154
Log:
Add a note about what cannot go into MASTER_SITES.
Reviewed by: bcr, wblock, erwin, bdrewery, ak
Approved by: bcr
Sponsored by: Absolight
Modified:
head/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/porters-handbook/makefiles/chapter.xml
Modified: head/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/porters-handbook/makefiles/chapter.xml
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--- head/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/porters-handbook/makefiles/chapter.xml Wed Jan 7 10:49:44 2015 (r46153)
+++ head/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/porters-handbook/makefiles/chapter.xml Wed Jan 7 11:09:00 2015 (r46154)
@@ -1632,6 +1632,17 @@
closest master site and fetching from there; having multiple
sites will go a long way towards helping this effort.</para>
+ <important>
+ <para><varname>MASTER_SITES</varname> must not be blank. It
+ must point to the actual site hosting the distribution
+ files. It cannot point to web archives, or the &os;
+ distribution files cache sites. The only exception to this
+ rule is ports that do not have any distribution files. For
+ example, meta-ports do not have any distribution files, so
+ <varname>MASTER_SITES</varname> does not need to be
+ set.</para>
+ </important>
+
<para>If the original tarball is part of one of the popular
archives such as SourceForge, GNU, or Perl CPAN, it may be
possible refer to those sites in an easy compact form using
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