Re: [GNU-Darwin-ports] Problems with ports

[James D. <ja...@sk...>]

On Tuesday, February 19, 2002, at 10:53  PM, JW wrote:

> Is there anyone in particular responsible for keeping track of the ftp
> servers/mirrors? I didn't spend a ton of time on it but I never even 
> found
> where it was getting the hostname from (for my package).

Actually, I tracked this down to the bsd.port.mk file, and it seems that 
make will default to ftp if it can't meet certain conditions.  I don't 
know what those conditions are, or how they get satisfied, but it would 
use wget or fetch otherwise.

James