Date: Thu, 21 Dec 2000 11:16:20 +0200 From: Peter Pentchev <roam@orbitel.bg> To: Andrew Reilly <areilly@bigpond.net.au> Cc: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Integration of ports and 3rd party anoncvs repositories? Message-ID: <20001221111620.B2990@ringworld.oblivion.bg> In-Reply-To: <200012210911.UAA13802@sr14.nsw-remote.bigpond.net.au>; from areilly@bigpond.net.au on Thu, Dec 21, 2000 at 08:10:59PM %2B1100 References: <20001221110058.A2990@ringworld.oblivion.bg> <200012210911.UAA13802@sr14.nsw-remote.bigpond.net.au>
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On Thu, Dec 21, 2000 at 08:10:59PM +1100, Andrew Reilly wrote: > On 21 Dec, Peter Pentchev wrote: > > Mmm.. I might be wrong here, but wouldn't tracking the CVS versions > > require nightly, if not hourly, test builds from the port maintainer > > to make sure that ongoing commits do not interfere with local patches? > > Oh, no. I didn't intend to imply that the ports system should be > capable of working with arbitrary checkouts. That would be very > unlikely indeed. I think that ports would usually just follow > tagged releases, as they do now. They still have to work with the > tarball releases, after all. > > No, I was just suggesting that, come release time, a "cvs co > -rFOO_TAG" might result in lower download time/space than grabbing > the entire tarball. Yup, Jeremy Shaffner pointed out the -r scheme, too. OK, time for the daily reminder to self - NO posting to public mailing lists before the first liter of <name of favorite caffeine-enabled drink> for the day! > I guess that there could easily be room, then, for super-keen port > maintaners to have a separate -nightly version of the port, but > even that would have to be based on a time-stamped check-out. It > also doesn't seem terribly likely for the bhemoths that I was > initially thinking about, either. G'luck, Peter -- This sentence contains exactly threee erors. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-ports" in the body of the message
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