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Date: Wed, 05 Sep 2012 23:16:03 -0700
From: Harlan Stenn <stenn@ntp.org>
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Chris Rees writes:
> On 6 Sep 2012 05:57, "Cy Schubert" <Cy.Schubert@komquats.com> 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?
> 
> It's possible, but you can't then do distinfo checks.

In this case we'd be grabbing a tarball, not source files.

H