On Wed, 24 Aug 2005, Jeremy C. Reed wrote:

> Is there any way to override the MASTER_SITES (such as on a one-time basis)
> without editing Makefile?
>
> I'd like to set something like:
> OVERRIDE_MASTER_SITES=ftp://ftp.example.foo/..../distfiles/
>
> Or is there any way to make it always use MASTER_SITE_BACKUP?

For external sites, MASTER_SORT works.  I have in my mk.conf:

MASTER_SITE_BACKUP=     http://ftp.ale.org/pub/NetBSD/packages/distfiles/ \
                        ftp://ftp.netbsd.org/pub/NetBSD/packages/distfiles/

followed later by (trimmed to only the relative entries):

MASTER_SORT=            ftp.ale.org

which will put ftp.ale.org at the top of the list to try first *always*,
regardless of what the package's MASTER_SITES says.

(Incidentally, I actually have ".duh.org" at the top of my MASTER_SORT,
allowing me to add an internal http server for cached distfiles for machines
other than where the cache lives.)

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-- Todd Vierling <tv@duh.org> <tv@pobox.com> <todd@vierling.name>