From owner-freebsd-ports Thu May 16 16: 5:46 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Received: from wopr.caltech.edu (wopr.caltech.edu [131.215.103.10]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E906137B400 for ; Thu, 16 May 2002 16:05:42 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from mph@localhost) by wopr.caltech.edu (8.11.6/8.11.6) id g4GN5dx48812; Thu, 16 May 2002 16:05:39 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from mph) Date: Thu, 16 May 2002 16:05:39 -0700 From: Matthew Hunt To: Jean-Yves Lefort Cc: freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Proposal: CVS as a fetch method for ports Message-ID: <20020516160539.B46782@wopr.caltech.edu> References: <20020517005544.63ae12dd.jylefort@brutele.be> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: <20020517005544.63ae12dd.jylefort@brutele.be>; from jylefort@brutele.be on Fri, May 17, 2002 at 12:55:44AM +0200 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 On Fri, May 17, 2002 at 12:55:44AM +0200, Jean-Yves Lefort wrote: > "use cvs files as distfiles is not good idea." > > Could some committer tell me why it is not a good idea? Probably because, unless you "cvs co" with a -r or -D option that always results in the same code coming through, the port could stop building due to changes in the code. Plus, I don't know how you would assign a version to the port (for packaging and the database of installed packages). -- Matthew Hunt * Stay close to the Vorlon. http://www.pobox.com/~mph/ * To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-ports" in the body of the message