Date: Mon, 16 Nov 2009 14:43:16 +0000 From: "b. f." <bf1783@googlemail.com> To: freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: RFC: svn for make fetch Message-ID: <d873d5be0911160643k527e8c56t8034b9842d25ae2a@mail.gmail.com>
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>> I was hoping to get a bit more of a response to a recent posting of >> mine with regard to using svn to fetch files for ports >> My proposal: http://www.mail-archive.com/freebsd-ports@freebsd.org/msg23776.html >> A summary of what has been going on: >> http://wiki.freebsd.org/EitanAdler/ports-svn > >This was discussed many times before, and this is a bad idea. >- No checksums -> security issue >- No distfile caching/mirroring -> excess traffic consumption and > horrible availability >and I hope you're not even thinking of fetching from VCS without >specifying exact revision. > >Some standard way of generating distfiles from VCS may be nice though, >if it goes into separate mk-file and supports all major VCS. I also think this is a bad idea, even as a separate mk-file, for many of the same reasons. But it could be useful as a script in ports/Tools.
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