Using CVS [was Re: Cvs variant in portfile]

[N_Ox]

Le 14 août 07 à 01:49, Landon Fuller a écrit :

>
> On Aug 10, 2007, at 18:17, Ryan Schmidt wrote:
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>>  I'm trying to figure out why you don't just fetch from CVS all  
>> the time
>
> Why do we allow fetching from CVS in the standard ports tree?  
> There's no way to validate the downloaded files (ie, checksums),  
> and it's completely non-deterministic.
>

You're quite right about the checksums, but the policy is to never  
export trunk but use specific revision numbers, so we are pretty sure  
we always fetch the same thing.

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