Date: Mon, 6 May 2002 14:01:16 +0200 From: Jean-Yves Lefort <jylefort@brutele.be> To: Philip Gollucci <p6m7g8@mac.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: Ports using CVS Message-ID: <20020506140116.A90622@jsite.lefort.net> In-Reply-To: <A93DF462-609A-11D6-992D-00039371BBE2@mac.com>; from p6m7g8@mac.com on Sun, May 05, 2002 at 10:40:43PM -0400 References: <20020506042424.A29524@jsite.lefort.net> <A93DF462-609A-11D6-992D-00039371BBE2@mac.com>
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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
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