From owner-freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Nov 11 15:14:44 2003 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 96B2816A4CE for ; Tue, 11 Nov 2003 15:14:44 -0800 (PST) Received: from netgecko.info (netgecko.info [217.160.92.122]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7C6F143FCB for ; Tue, 11 Nov 2003 15:14:43 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from alex.kiesel@document-root.de) Received: from [192.168.2.110] (dsl-082-082-076-154.arcor-ip.net [82.82.76.154]) by netgecko.info (Postfix) with ESMTP id BF2E18821A; Wed, 12 Nov 2003 00:15:37 +0100 (CET) From: Alex Kiesel To: Tim Aslat In-Reply-To: <20031112081042.513ebdc5.tim@spyderweb.com.au> References: <1068458390.38101.19.camel@dirk.no.domain> <20031112081042.513ebdc5.tim@spyderweb.com.au> Content-Type: text/plain Message-Id: <1068592477.528.1.camel@boost.home.ahk> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Ximian Evolution 1.4.5 Date: Wed, 12 Nov 2003 00:14:37 +0100 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit cc: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Ability for maintainers to update own ports X-BeenThere: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: Porting software to FreeBSD List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 11 Nov 2003 23:14:44 -0000 On Tue, 2003-11-11 at 22:40, Tim Aslat wrote: > In the immortal words of Sam Lawrance ... > > Pick it to bits, if there are solutions I want to find them :) > > The biggest problem I can see is that CVS is our biggest limitation. > Surely it wouldn't be too hard to add functionality into CVS which would > allow per directory r/w permissions on some kind of > user/group based authentication. Directory based permissions are supported in CVS through the commitinfo-script. The PHP-Group, for examples, implemented a karma system for their source tree, and FreeBSD utilizes a similar system IIRC. - Alex