Date: Fri, 18 Dec 2009 00:57:28 -0600 From: Mark Linimon <linimon@lonesome.com> To: Dominic Fandrey <kamikaze@bsdforen.de> Cc: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Subject: Re: ioquake3 support more platforms Message-ID: <20091218065728.GC29158@lonesome.com> In-Reply-To: <4B2A52DB.5020602@bsdforen.de> References: <4B2A52DB.5020602@bsdforen.de>
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On Thu, Dec 17, 2009 at 04:48:43PM +0100, Dominic Fandrey wrote: > A committer explained to me that he doesn't want to deal with SVN > snapshot based ports. Is that a common attitude and what should > I do to remedy this? Well, the problem is that we (FreeBSD) can't guarantee whether the contents of a resulting package are secure or not, or really, what the contents are at all. I personally would only be comfortable with a default setting of NO_PACKAGE in this case. Individual users could manually override it. I don't know if there is a formal policy about such ports. Probably, there ought to be. mcl
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