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Date:      Sun, 19 Dec 2010 09:01:37 -0600
From:      Ade Lovett <ade@FreeBSD.org>
To:        Matthias Andree <mandree@FreeBSD.org>
Cc:        freebsd-ports Ports <freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.org>
Subject:   Re: Need help with Pidgin-Skype port
Message-ID:  <D2E34C8E-0B2B-4143-B888-D627A44ADA60@FreeBSD.org>
In-Reply-To: <4D0E138C.5090302@FreeBSD.org>
References:  <4D0E138C.5090302@FreeBSD.org>

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On Dec 19, 2010, at 08:15 , Matthias Andree wrote:
> 2. review if checking out sources like this from SVN is ok, or rather =
frowned
> up. The upstream maintainer doesn't provide source tarballs.

Don't do this.  If the upstream doesn't provide snapshots, you'll need =
to make tarballs yourself, stick them in =
freefall:~/public_distfiles/<foo> and set

MASTER_SITES=3D ${MASTER_SITE_LOCAL}
MASTER_SITE_SUBDIR=3D <freefall-user-name>

in the port Makefile.

> 3. (related to 2) since the stuff is GPLv2, do we need to cache =
sources in case
> googlecode ever drops off the world?

Irrelevant.  See #2 above.

-aDe




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