From owner-freebsd-ports Thu May 16 15:55:50 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Received: from mirapoint2.brutele.be (mirapoint2.brutele.be [212.68.193.7]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6F4CE37B400 for ; Thu, 16 May 2002 15:55:47 -0700 (PDT) Received: from gateway.lefort.net ([213.189.162.78]) by mirapoint2.brutele.be (Mirapoint) with ESMTP id AYA04951; Fri, 17 May 2002 00:55:45 +0200 (CEST) Received: from jsite.lefort.net (jsite.lefort.net [192.168.1.2]) by gateway.lefort.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id DD1EA1577F for ; Fri, 17 May 2002 00:55:44 +0200 (CEST) Received: from jsite.lefort.net (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by jsite.lefort.net (Postfix) with SMTP id 4004522E14 for ; Fri, 17 May 2002 00:55:44 +0200 (CEST) Date: Fri, 17 May 2002 00:55:44 +0200 From: Jean-Yves Lefort To: freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.org Subject: Proposal: CVS as a fetch method for ports Message-Id: <20020517005544.63ae12dd.jylefort@brutele.be> X-Mailer: Sylpheed version 0.7.5 (GTK+ 1.2.10; i386-portbld-freebsd4.6) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Hi, I am planning to submit a PR which will add CVS support to the ports system; that is, ports will be able to be fetched from their CVS repository. However, I once submitted a port fetching its distribution using CVS, and the committer rejected the port, answering (literally): "use cvs files as distfiles is not good idea." Could some committer tell me why it is not a good idea? Best regards, Jean-Yves Lefort -- Jean-Yves Lefort jylefort@brutele.be http://lefort.homeunix.org/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-ports" in the body of the message