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mat retitled this revision from to Add a note about what cannot go into MASTER_SITES..
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Add a bit about meta-ports.

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Looks good!

This revision is now accepted and ready to land.Jan 6 2015, 4:36 PM
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en_US.ISO8859-1/books/porters-handbook/makefiles/chapter.xml
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IMHO, it's a little too vague, why can't MASTER_SITES points to webarchive.org or any other permanent archive ?

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Hmm. In some cases ports other than meta-ports can have MASTER_SITES left blank, like https://svnweb.freebsd.org/ports/head/www/googlebook_dl/Makefile?annotate=354597#l7

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USE_GITHUB is another exception.

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Reword the last sentence.

This revision now requires review to proceed.Jan 6 2015, 4:58 PM
en_US.ISO8859-1/books/porters-handbook/makefiles/chapter.xml
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I would make that two sentences, it makes the sentences easier to read and understand:

  1. The only exception to this rule is ports that do not have any distribution files.
  2. For example, ...
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en_US.ISO8859-1/books/porters-handbook/makefiles/chapter.xml
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Agreed on both. For the second sentence:

For example, meta-ports do not have any distribution files, so <varname>MASTER_SITES</varname> does not need to be set.

en_US.ISO8859-1/books/porters-handbook/makefiles/chapter.xml
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Mmmm, because that's our policy.

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Update.

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This revision is now accepted and ready to land.Jan 7 2015, 10:57 AM