From owner-freebsd-questions Mon May 6 5: 1:29 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 2F07A37B401 for ; Mon, 6 May 2002 05:01:22 -0700 (PDT) Received: from gateway.lefort.net ([213.189.162.78]) by mirapoint2.brutele.be (Mirapoint) with SMTP id AXN12136; Mon, 6 May 2002 14:01:17 +0200 (CEST) Received: from jsite.lefort.net (jsite.lefort.net [192.168.1.2]) by gateway.lefort.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id 260F215282; Mon, 6 May 2002 14:01:17 +0200 (CEST) Received: by jsite.lefort.net (Postfix, from userid 1000) id 7D89122EEB; Mon, 6 May 2002 14:01:16 +0200 (CEST) Date: Mon, 6 May 2002 14:01:16 +0200 From: Jean-Yves Lefort To: Philip Gollucci Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: Ports using CVS Message-ID: <20020506140116.A90622@jsite.lefort.net> Mail-Followup-To: Philip Gollucci , freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.org References: <20020506042424.A29524@jsite.lefort.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5.1i In-Reply-To: ; from p6m7g8@mac.com on Sun, May 05, 2002 at 10:40:43PM -0400 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 On Sun, May 05, 2002 at 10:40:43PM -0400, Philip Gollucci wrote: > I'm not a ports committer, but I'm guessing because the Checksums will > hardly ever match cause the CVS files are constantly being changed! > > On Sunday, May 5, 2002, at 10:24 PM, Jean-Yves Lefort wrote: > > > 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? And what is wrong in dropping the checksum? Whenever you choose to fetch a distribution via CVS, you agree to not care about the checksum. 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