Date: Sun, 9 Sep 2007 09:02:13 -0700 From: Luigi Rizzo <rizzo@icir.org> To: Kris Kennaway <kris@FreeBSD.org> Cc: ports@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: any standard method to fetch a port's sources from svn (or cvs, etc) ? Message-ID: <20070909090213.A34735@xorpc.icir.org> In-Reply-To: <46E41795.3060304@FreeBSD.org>; from kris@FreeBSD.org on Sun, Sep 09, 2007 at 05:56:05PM %2B0200 References: <20070909065432.A33424@xorpc.icir.org> <46E41795.3060304@FreeBSD.org>
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On Sun, Sep 09, 2007 at 05:56:05PM +0200, Kris Kennaway wrote:
> Luigi Rizzo wrote:
> > as the subject says, i was wondering if there is any standard method
> > to fetch the sources for a port from a Subversion (or CVS or other
> > scm) repository.
> >
> > Right now i am doing it with the following sequence
> > (the use of update vs checkout is because originally i
> > fetched into distfiles, not ${WRKSRC}, and later copied
> > the source to WRKSRC)
> >
> > REMOTE_REPO= http://svn.foo.bar/svn/xyz
> > REPO_CMD= \
> > if [ -f xyz ] ; then \
> > svn update ${REMOTE_REPO} . ; else \
> > svn checkout ${REMOTE_REPO} . ; fi
> >
> > do-fetch:
> > ${MKDIR} -p ${WRKSRC}
> > (cd ${WRKSRC}; ${REPO_CMD} )
> >
> > but there might be better ways, and perhaps if this is a common
> > pattern it may be worth having generic support for it ?
>
> It is recommended not to do this. Some of our users are behind
> firewalls and cannot fetch except via HTTP and FTP. Instead, you need
Ok i understand the restriction, but for what matters, SVN and maybe
other source management systems (git ?) run on top of http and work
fine through a proxy.
cheers
luigi
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