[32446] trunk/dports/sysutils/rpm-devel/Portfile

[Landon Fuller]

On Jan 5, 2008, at 1:42 PM, Ryan Schmidt wrote:

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> On Jan 3, 2008, at 05:11, Anders F Björklund wrote:
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>> Ryan Schmidt wrote:
>>
>>>> Perhaps, but these -devel ports usally build from tip of trunk so  
>>>> they all had revision "0"...
>>>
>>> Ports should never build from tip of trunk or HEAD or similar  
>>> concepts.....
>>
>> These do.
>
> But that's not reproducible, and I thought we always wanted that. If  
> I install a specific version of a port today, I should get the same  
> software if I install that same version of that port tomorrow. By  
> fetching from HEAD, you break that assumption.

This is why I've thought we should not support CVS/SVN fetching in any  
form -- No checksums, no guaranteed reproducibility.