On Sun, 30 Jan 2000, Berndt Josef Wulf wrote:

> G'day,
> 
> I am facing a number of packages which requires multiple tarballs as the
> source code and documentation are seperated.
> 
> What is is the mechanism to fetch both tarballs and incoperating them into
> one package? Are there any other packages already doing this?
> 

cad/fastcap does this

MASTER_SITES=   ftp://rle-vlsi.mit.edu/pub/fastcap/
DISTFILES=      fastcap-2.0-15Jul92.tar.Z \
                postscript/ug.ps.Z \
                postscript/mtt.ps.Z \
                postscript/tcad.ps.Z
 
-Dan