Date: Sat, 26 Jan 2002 22:30:27 +0100 From: Joerg Wunsch <j@uriah.heep.sax.de> To: Kris Kennaway <kris@obsecurity.org> Cc: cvs-committers@FreeBSD.org, cvs-all@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: cvs commit: ports/devel/avr-libc/files README.libdoc avr-lib.pdf Message-ID: <20020126223027.I4785@uriah.heep.sax.de> In-Reply-To: <20020126131446.A18271@xor.obsecurity.org>; from kris@obsecurity.org on Sat, Jan 26, 2002 at 01:14:46PM -0800 References: <200201261759.g0QHxuH09971@freefall.freebsd.org> <20020126151342.V18609@squall.waterspout.com> <20020126220447.H4785@uriah.heep.sax.de> <20020126131446.A18271@xor.obsecurity.org>
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As Kris Kennaway wrote: > > > Uh. What is a PDF doing in the ports tree? > > > > Give me a generic way to fetch a non-distfile non-patchfile, > > and i'll use it. > > If there's truly no canonical place for it in the ports framework (I'm > not convinced), We've been discussing it by the time i created the port, and there was no solution to it. If there's a way now to fetch additional files /and/ redistribute them in the distfiles hierarchy (so they are mirrored, properly checksummed etc.), i'll happily use it. > then why can't you just use fetch at the appropriate > time? Because that wouldn't guarantee a consistent state. It wouldn't be propagated to the mirrors as distfiles are, so the next one who builds the port could as well fetch another version of the file. (The file is third-party documentation that could be changed by its author at any time, and in fact, it has already been renamed twice since i created the port.) Again, i've been asking before, so that would have been the point to veto against it (and provide something better i could use instead). -- cheers, J"org .-.-. --... ...-- -.. . DL8DTL http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ NIC: JW11-RIPE Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-) To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe cvs-all" in the body of the message
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