From owner-cvs-all Fri Jul 9 20:15:59 1999 Delivered-To: cvs-all@freebsd.org Received: from janus.syracuse.net (janus.syracuse.net [205.232.47.15]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C09261507C; Fri, 9 Jul 1999 20:15:55 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from green@FreeBSD.org) Received: from localhost (green@localhost) by janus.syracuse.net (8.9.2/8.8.7) with ESMTP id XAA86151; Fri, 9 Jul 1999 23:16:02 -0400 (EDT) X-Authentication-Warning: janus.syracuse.net: green owned process doing -bs Date: Fri, 9 Jul 1999 23:16:02 -0400 (EDT) From: "Brian F. Feldman" X-Sender: green@janus.syracuse.net To: "David O'Brien" Cc: Steve Kargl , cvs-committers@FreeBSD.org, cvs-all@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: cvs commit: ports/devel/linux-devel - Imported sources In-Reply-To: <19990709164326.B1341@dragon.nuxi.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-cvs-all@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk On Fri, 9 Jul 1999, David O'Brien wrote: > > > Another repository copy candidate, imported without a copy. :< > > > > Saving history does not seem like a valid answer when the history does > > not belong to the new port. > > 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. > > -- > -- David (obrien@NUXI.com -or- obrien@FreeBSD.org) > > Brian Fundakowski Feldman _ __ ___ ____ ___ ___ ___ green@FreeBSD.org _ __ ___ | _ ) __| \ FreeBSD: The Power to Serve! _ __ | _ \._ \ |) | http://www.FreeBSD.org/ _ |___/___/___/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe cvs-all" in the body of the message