From owner-freebsd-ports Mon May 31 8:26:39 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Received: from smtp13.bellglobal.com (smtp13.bellglobal.com [204.101.251.52]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0D77214CFE; Mon, 31 May 1999 08:26:33 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from vanderh@ecf.toronto.edu) Received: from localhost.nowhere (ppp18367.on.bellglobal.com [206.172.130.47]) by smtp13.bellglobal.com (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id LAA13662; Mon, 31 May 1999 11:27:34 -0400 (EDT) Received: (from tim@localhost) by localhost.nowhere (8.9.3/8.9.1) id LAA12616; Mon, 31 May 1999 11:26:49 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from tim) Date: Mon, 31 May 1999 11:26:48 -0400 From: Tim Vanderhoek To: Max Khon Cc: Satoshi - Ports Wraith - Asami , mladavac@metropolitan.at, luigi@labinfo.iet.unipi.it, freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG, freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: a two-level port system? (fwd) Message-ID: <19990531112648.A12515@mad> References: <199905311410.HAA51369@silvia.hip.berkeley.edu> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.95i In-Reply-To: ; from Max Khon on Mon, May 31, 1999 at 09:22:23PM +0700 Sender: owner-freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On Mon, May 31, 1999 at 09:22:23PM +0700, Max Khon wrote: > > It's hard to check out the port for an arbitrary version of program. > E.g.: try to check out port for samba 1.9.18p10 Well, samba was upgraded from 1.9.18p10 to 2.0.0 at Mon Jan 18 2:34:03 1999 UTC, so to checkout 1.9.18p10, $ cvs co -D "Mon Jan 18 1:34:03 1999 UTC" samba $ Actually, if you think about it a little, you'll notice that it becomes _harder_ to checkout a specific version of a port if the whole port is stored inside a single shar archive. [Consider: port import, port upgrade, port bugfix to patch-ac -- to checkout the original version of the port imported and include the bugfix to patch-ac is much harder if it's all shar'd up]. -- This is my .signature which gets appended to the end of my messages. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-ports" in the body of the message