Using CVS [was Re: Cvs variant in portfile]

[Landon Fuller]

On Aug 13, 2007, at 17:05, N_Ox wrote:

>
> Le 14 août 07 à 01:49, Landon Fuller a écrit :
>
>>
>> On Aug 10, 2007, at 18:17, Ryan Schmidt wrote:
>>
>>>  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.

Given that, the export should just be tar'd up and placed somewhere  
for download -- then checksums can be checked.

-landonf
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