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

Anders F Björklund afb at macports.org
Sun Jan 6 12:20:49 PST 2008


Landon Fuller wrote:

>> 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.

Specifying a revision should be reproducible (not verifiably so but), 
but I'll switch to tarball snapshots...

Or delete the ports, whichever works. ("port not found" is guaranteed 
to be reproducible every single time)

--anders



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