From owner-cvs-all Mon Jul 12 1: 8: 3 1999 Delivered-To: cvs-all@freebsd.org Received: from dfw-ix16.ix.netcom.com (dfw-ix16.ix.netcom.com [206.214.98.16]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 82F0E14E0E; Mon, 12 Jul 1999 01:07:59 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from asami@cs.berkeley.edu) Received: (from smap@localhost) by dfw-ix16.ix.netcom.com (8.8.4/8.8.4) id DAA22825; Mon, 12 Jul 1999 03:06:53 -0500 (CDT) Received: from sji-ca4-70.ix.netcom.com(205.186.212.198) by dfw-ix16.ix.netcom.com via smap (V1.3) id rma022823; Mon Jul 12 03:06:29 1999 Received: (from asami@localhost) by silvia.hip.berkeley.edu (8.9.3/8.6.9) id BAA68145; Mon, 12 Jul 1999 01:06:23 -0700 (PDT) Date: Mon, 12 Jul 1999 01:06:23 -0700 (PDT) Message-Id: <199907120806.BAA68145@silvia.hip.berkeley.edu> X-Authentication-Warning: silvia.hip.berkeley.edu: asami set sender to asami@cs.berkeley.edu using -f To: green@FreeBSD.org Cc: obrien@FreeBSD.org, sgk@troutmask.apl.washington.edu, cvs-committers@FreeBSD.org, cvs-all@FreeBSD.org In-reply-to: (green@FreeBSD.org) Subject: Re: cvs commit: ports/devel/linux-devel - Imported sources From: asami@FreeBSD.org (Satoshi - Ports Wraith - Asami) References: Sender: owner-cvs-all@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk * From: "Brian F. Feldman" * On Fri, 9 Jul 1999, David O'Brien wrote: * > Why does the history not belong to this port? The functionality of the * > port is the same. Just because the internal organization, distfile, and * > PLIST changed does not make this a brand new port that FreeBSD has never * > seen before. * * By that reasoning, all MTAs (for instance) or (another instance) MP3 players * would be repository copied. The justification in this case is that it is a * brand new port, which it is. It's not based on the same "source" necessarily, * so it is not the same port. The difference here is that MTA foo doesn't usually replace MTA bar (in the ports tree, not on people's machines if they choose to switch :). The ports tree is cleaned out every few months by removing stuff in the Attic. History of old ports will be lost forever if they aren't preserved in some way. If it truly is gone, there's nothing we can do about it, but if it is replaced (by something whether it comes from the same source or not), we try to keep them by copying it first. All this is in the cvsguide.txt, of course. But people don't seem to read it these days. :) Satoshi To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe cvs-all" in the body of the message