[32446] trunk/dports/sysutils/rpm-devel/Portfile
Anders F Björklund
afb at macports.org
Mon Jan 7 00:06:47 PST 2008
Markus Weissmann wrote:
>>> 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.
Weekly ? No, these all have daily snapshot tarballs generated since
they are under development.
But I'm cool with moving the ports to my local overlay, as I won't have
time to update them...
--anders
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