Date: Fri, 20 Jun 2003 10:25:40 -0700 From: Joshua Oreman <oremanj@webserver.get-linux.org> To: Kris Kennaway <kris@obsecurity.org> Cc: ports@freebsd.org Subject: Re: ports using CVS repo to get sources Message-ID: <20030620172539.GB25735@webserver.get-linux.org> In-Reply-To: <20030620165926.GB53379@rot13.obsecurity.org> References: <20030620101547.GC92339@nevermind.kiev.ua> <20030620164643.GC25203@webserver.get-linux.org> <20030620165926.GB53379@rot13.obsecurity.org>
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On Fri, Jun 20, 2003 at 09:59:26AM -0700 or thereabouts, Kris Kennaway seemed to write:
> On Fri, Jun 20, 2003 at 09:46:43AM -0700, Joshua Oreman wrote:
>
> > Someone better at ports than me should comment on this, but:
> > * Make ${PORTVERSION} something like "1.x-cvs" [does this violate the versioning scheme?]
>
> I think so.
>
> > * In do-fetch, do:
> > do-fetch:
> > ${MKDIR} ${WRKSRC}
> > (cd ${WRKSRC} && cvs -Q -d :pserver:anon@my.cvs.server:/cvsroot checkout mymodule)
> > * Make do-extract remove all vestiges of CVS :-)
> > do-extract:
> > ${FIND} ${WRKSRC} -name CVS -exec rm -rf {} \;
> > * And it should work.
> >
> > However, I think the main reason that there's no CVS knobs in bsd.port.mk is
> > because ports are supposed to be releases. But for a separate port, that's OK,
> > I think.
>
> No, it's because you can't fetch from CVS behind a firewall, so some
> people will never be able to build your port if it relies on CVS
> fetching.
Why is this true? I thought pserver was a one way connection.
> Instead, you should make your own tarball (possibly by
> using a helper makefile target for use by the maintainer that fetches
> from CVS and creates the tarball) and make it available for
> redistribution, either on your own FTP site or on MASTER_SITE_LOCAL.
Thanks for the tip!
-- Josh
>
> Kris
>
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