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[Matthias Andree]

Clint Adams schrieb am Freitag, den 22. November 2002:

> > As for FreeBSD, most downloads go through the ports system, and that
> > grabs the tarball and downloads it. Not sure what apt-get does.
> 
> apt-get and other Debian tools grab the deb or source package from
> whatever Debian mirror you have configured.  It's not as flexible as
> ports, in that you can only get source tarballs from explicitly
> specified sites.

Ports are no different. They try a fixed set of sites configured by the
Makefile. Ok, through include magic and make variables, the list may
change if the port is unchanged, for example,
$(MASTER_SITE_SOURCEFORGE), but that's about it. Only that each port
specifies its own location.

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Matthias Andree