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Date:      Fri, 25 Mar 2005 18:55:48 -0800
From:      Kris Kennaway <kris@obsecurity.org>
To:        sergei@gnezdov.net, freebsd-ports@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: cvs as port's download source
Message-ID:  <20050326025548.GA64979@xor.obsecurity.org>
In-Reply-To: <20050325073540.GA95923@isis.sigpipe.cz>
References:  <slrnd47ck3.7h1.use-reply-to@gnezdov.net> <20050325073540.GA95923@isis.sigpipe.cz>

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On Fri, Mar 25, 2005 at 08:35:40AM +0100, Roman Neuhauser wrote:
> # use-reply-to@gnezdov.net / 2005-03-25 06:40:39 +0000:
> > Does it make sense to create a FreeBSD port with download location
> > beeing CVS tree at some particular day?
>=20
>     You mean instead of fetching a tarball from MASTER_SITES it would
>     check out a working copy from a particular date, and build that?
>=20
>     There are / were several ports that do exactly this.

It's not a good idea, because e.g. anyone behind a firewall will be
unable to fetch this port.

Kris
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