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Date:      Fri, 16 May 2008 16:13:25 -0500
From:      Brooks Davis <brooks@freebsd.org>
To:        Gabor Kovesdan <gabor@freebsd.org>
Cc:        Wesley Shields <wxs@freebsd.org>, Andriy Gapon <avg@icyb.net.ua>, freebsd-ports@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: porting of SVN-only software
Message-ID:  <20080516211325.GB91492@lor.one-eyed-alien.net>
In-Reply-To: <482DDBA9.4070504@FreeBSD.org>
References:  <482DD851.4090902@icyb.net.ua> <20080516190149.GC73943@atarininja.org> <482DDBA9.4070504@FreeBSD.org>

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On Fri, May 16, 2008 at 09:08:25PM +0200, Gabor Kovesdan wrote:
> Wesley Shields escribi?:
>> On Fri, May 16, 2008 at 09:54:09PM +0300, Andriy Gapon wrote:
>>  =20
>>> Suppose there is a project that does not produce any official snapshots=
=20
>>> or releases of its source-code, keeps all sources in SVN and the best i=
t=20
>>> does - declares a certain revision as stable or something similar.
>>> What would be the best way to create a FreeBSD port for such software?
>>> Any examples?
>>>    =20
>>=20
>> My approach would be to produce a tarball of the checkout and work with
>> that.
> Agreed. The date of the checkout should be the PORTVERSION, for example=
=20
> 20080516.

Alternativly, the global version number for the tree might be
appropriate for subversion source.

-- Brooks

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