Date: Sun, 13 Dec 2009 14:37:34 +0100 From: "army.of.root" <army.of.root@googlemail.com> To: Wesley Shields <wxs@FreeBSD.org> Cc: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Subject: Re: mplayer from SVN Message-ID: <4B24EE1E.8030905@googlemail.com> In-Reply-To: <20091212223638.GA84104@atarininja.org> References: <20091211232021.4a316c65@wizard.volgograd.ru> <4B23EA48.5090407@googlemail.com> <20091212223638.GA84104@atarininja.org>
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Wesley Shields wrote: > On Sat, Dec 12, 2009 at 08:08:56PM +0100, army.of.root wrote: >> On 2009/12/11 21:20, Denis Shaposhnikov wrote: >>> Hello, >>> >>> Does anybody have a port for building mplayer from SVN? >>> >>> Thanks! >>> >> Hi, >> >> just wantet to express my interest for a "mplayer-devel" port. >> It seems that it is the common way fetching a svn snapshot >> to supply mplayer to the users in other distributions. > > Having a port fetch directly from SVN, build and install, is not how > things are done. A maintainer must periodically fetch, verify and build > a tarball for the port to use. > > -- WXS Hi, sorry, i meant the distributor fetches a snapshot, makes sure it does what is needed und builds a package. In our case that would look like "use snapshot from 2009-mm-dd". Sorry for my ambigous mail :) best regards
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