Using CVS [was Re: Cvs variant in portfile]

[N_Ox]

Le 14 août 07 à 03:26, N_Ox a écrit :

> Le 14 août 07 à 02:19, Landon Fuller a écrit :
>
>>
>> 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?
>
> --
> Anthony Ramine, the infamous MacPorts Trac slave.
> nox at macports.org
>
>


By the way, it should be noted in the new guide that export tarballs  
are preferred over checkout ones.
I don't need all of those .svn and CVS, I just want the sources.

--
Anthony Ramine, the infamous MacPorts Trac slave.
nox at macports.org