From owner-freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Nov 16 14:43:18 2009 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5BF67106566C for ; Mon, 16 Nov 2009 14:43:18 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from bf1783@googlemail.com) Received: from mail-bw0-f213.google.com (mail-bw0-f213.google.com [209.85.218.213]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E83B08FC16 for ; Mon, 16 Nov 2009 14:43:17 +0000 (UTC) Received: by bwz5 with SMTP id 5so6055881bwz.3 for ; Mon, 16 Nov 2009 06:43:16 -0800 (PST) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=googlemail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:mime-version:received:date:message-id:subject :from:to:content-type; bh=2rAGz6UxwQTuyIvA6IaraQEtNNkKgMKhEa8BEd3F/TY=; b=X8o1Ac5iblTd6rm9CuKeARq/QvBMU1w1kcTqHzaxd96TIaRj6yoeaRE8+tDjwrYNCS YLQtEN+dudu5jc3jVh9eVtfQ9oaKsKrC33buC+tAKHfUAKDopXZdlp/4ABrWROfbK3c9 nHdN0/cp32yxPMqPLIIs9vnOKBXKXyXCKQzBU= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=googlemail.com; s=gamma; h=mime-version:date:message-id:subject:from:to:content-type; b=ENbspyYreUYF+mRMIcGm7y0Y7YKcMbCFNXaBdBaAZsZ40WEP19X1SpIz7utuI12gBg KY2FH/ZwP+WFx+um6mzhX/1HVgk9Bw3XRaMc3saGzudESy69IDf57vm5d4zlD3c9K24u 4F/tMQVRz8Z91UivEeG/S8TUWBwrLXYT77MK0= MIME-Version: 1.0 Received: by 10.216.87.16 with SMTP id x16mr48588wee.106.1258382596602; Mon, 16 Nov 2009 06:43:16 -0800 (PST) Date: Mon, 16 Nov 2009 14:43:16 +0000 Message-ID: From: "b. f." To: freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Cc: Subject: Re: RFC: svn for make fetch X-BeenThere: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Porting software to FreeBSD List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 16 Nov 2009 14:43:18 -0000 >> 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.