Adding fetch.type git as a variant?

[Bayard Bell]

I'd add to that that it seems to make for undue confusion to use a variant to follow a different version.

On 10 May 2011, at 01:11, Joshua Root wrote:

> On 2011-5-10 08:34 , David Bruce wrote:
>> Hi,
>> 
>> All of the SCM fetch types are discouraged in the manual for
>> "non-reproducible builds", which is fair enough.  But as the
>> maintainer of both the Portfile and the upstream project, it seems it
>> would be highly useful to have an automated way to see if the latest
>> git source breaks the macports build.  Is it possible/advisable to do
>> this as a variant, as there doesn't seem to be any option to tell port
>> to use a different fetch type, e.g. something like:
>> 
>> variant git_dev_only description {use latest git source} {
>>     fetch.type          git
>>     git.url                git://git.debian.org/git/tux4kids/t4k_common.git
>>     use_autoreconf  yes
>> }
>> 
>> plus whatever else is needed to get it to work.
>> 
>> Thanks for any advice,
>> 
>> David Bruce
> 
> I don't think this would be appropriate for inclusion in the main repo.
> You could add this variant to your local copy, or you could have a
> script that runs something like
> 'port destroot myport fetch.type=git use_autoreconf=yes ...'
> 
> - Josh
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