From owner-freebsd-questions Sun May 5 19:24:30 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mirapoint2.brutele.be (mirapoint2.brutele.be [212.68.193.7]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 14AD437B403 for ; Sun, 5 May 2002 19:24:28 -0700 (PDT) Received: from gateway.lefort.net ([213.189.162.78]) by mirapoint2.brutele.be (Mirapoint) with SMTP id AXM68024; Mon, 6 May 2002 04:24:25 +0200 (CEST) Received: from jsite.lefort.net (jsite.lefort.net [192.168.1.2]) by gateway.lefort.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1552315282 for ; Mon, 6 May 2002 04:24:24 +0200 (CEST) Received: by jsite.lefort.net (Postfix, from userid 1000) id 6F8C122EEB; Mon, 6 May 2002 04:24:24 +0200 (CEST) Date: Mon, 6 May 2002 04:24:24 +0200 From: Jean-Yves Lefort To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.org Subject: Ports using CVS Message-ID: <20020506042424.A29524@jsite.lefort.net> Mail-Followup-To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5.1i Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Hi, I am planning to submit a PR which will add CVS support to the ports system; that is, ports will be able to be fetched from their CVS repository. However, I once submitted a port fetching its distribution using CVS, and the committer rejected the port, answering (literally): "use cvs files as distfiles is not good idea." Could some ports committer tell me why it is not a good idea? Best regards, Jean-Yves Lefort -- * Jean-Yves Lefort -- jylefort@brutele.be -- http://lefort.homeunix.org/ * To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message