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

[Markus Weissmann]

On 6 Jan 2008, at 21:20, Anders F Björklund wrote:

> 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)
>


Imho -- at least for "-devel" ports -- cvs/svn fetching is o.k. if at  
least a date -- in the past ;) -- is supplied. Avoid it if possible,  
but if it leads to you generating weekly snapshots from some  
repository, just use cvs/svn fetching.


Regards,

-Markus

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