Date: Fri, 20 Jun 2003 19:33:46 -0500 From: Erik Greenwald <erik@smluc.org> To: ports@freebsd.org Subject: Re: ports using CVS repo to get sources Message-ID: <20030621003346.GA17149@xarx.midsouth.rr.com> In-Reply-To: <20030621001015.GB60379@rot13.obsecurity.org> References: <20030620101547.GC92339@nevermind.kiev.ua> <20030620164643.GC25203@webserver.get-linux.org> <20030620165926.GB53379@rot13.obsecurity.org> <20030620172539.GB25735@webserver.get-linux.org> <20030621001015.GB60379@rot13.obsecurity.org>
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On Fri, Jun 20, 2003 at 05:10:15PM -0700, Kris Kennaway wrote:
> On Fri, Jun 20, 2003 at 10:25:40AM -0700, Joshua Oreman wrote:
>
> > > No, it's because you can't fetch from CVS behind a firewall, so some
> > > people will never be able to build your port if it relies on CVS
> > > fetching.
> >
> > Why is this true? I thought pserver was a one way connection.
>
> Many firewalls do not allow arbitrary outbound connections.
>
> Kris
a couple more reasons to avoid CVS in a port...
1) the user may not have cvs installed (NO_CVS=yes)
2) you can't vrfy the integrity or bsd freindliness of the src in the cvs
repo, so it's reasonably possible that the port will be unbuildable at
any given time.
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