Date: Wed, 12 Sep 2012 22:41:35 +0100 From: Chris Rees <crees@FreeBSD.org> To: Bryan Drewery <bryan@shatow.net> Cc: Harlan Stenn <stenn@ntp.org>, freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Automatic Port Message-ID: <CADLo838KAR8BQ2t8mopJ=-akgL-T_7oW1NE8qUNXXDZdyzn-3w@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <5048A647.4030401@shatow.net> References: <201209060457.q864vGvY048164@slippy.cwsent.com> <5048A647.4030401@shatow.net>
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On 6 September 2012 14:33, Bryan Drewery <bryan@shatow.net> wrote: > On 9/5/2012 11:57 PM, Cy Schubert wrote: >> Hi all, >> >> I'm considering a -devel port which checks out from our upline's VCS repo, >> also generating a dynamic plist. I'm sure this is possible. Are there any >> examples of this? >> >> > > AFAIK it had only been done with 1 port, and that has been reverted due > to not having a known distinfo. > > The preferred way is to just do snapshot updates. That way the user is > alerted to new versions. Otherwise they are sitting on this "9999" > version forever until they *force* reinstall to get an upgrade. > Hm, however, you could make a target to just update to latest snapshot. http://www.bayofrum.net/~crees/scratch/Makefile-snippet (imperfect, but you should get the idea). Best case scenario, make nextsnap && port test && svn commit ;) Chris
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