Using CVS [was Re: Cvs variant in portfile]

[N_Ox]

Le 14 août 07 à 02:19, Landon Fuller a écrit :

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> On Aug 13, 2007, at 17:05, N_Ox wrote:
>
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>> Le 14 août 07 à 01:49, Landon Fuller a écrit :
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>>>
>>> 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.
>
> Given that, the export should just be tar'd up and placed somewhere  
> for download -- then checksums can be checked.
>
> -landonf

By the way, am I blind or is there no "fetch.type" in portfile manpage?

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