Date: Thu, 16 May 2002 16:05:39 -0700 From: Matthew Hunt <mph@astro.caltech.edu> To: Jean-Yves Lefort <jylefort@brutele.be> Cc: freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Proposal: CVS as a fetch method for ports Message-ID: <20020516160539.B46782@wopr.caltech.edu> In-Reply-To: <20020517005544.63ae12dd.jylefort@brutele.be>; from jylefort@brutele.be on Fri, May 17, 2002 at 12:55:44AM %2B0200 References: <20020517005544.63ae12dd.jylefort@brutele.be>
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On Fri, May 17, 2002 at 12:55:44AM +0200, Jean-Yves Lefort wrote: > "use cvs files as distfiles is not good idea." > > Could some committer tell me why it is not a good idea? Probably because, unless you "cvs co" with a -r or -D option that always results in the same code coming through, the port could stop building due to changes in the code. Plus, I don't know how you would assign a version to the port (for packaging and the database of installed packages). -- Matthew Hunt <mph@astro.caltech.edu> * Stay close to the Vorlon. http://www.pobox.com/~mph/ * To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-ports" in the body of the message
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