From owner-freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Nov 16 12:16:26 2009 Return-Path: Delivered-To: ports@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 18A64106566B for ; Mon, 16 Nov 2009 12:16:26 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from amdmi3@amdmi3.ru) Received: from smtp.timeweb.ru (smtp.timeweb.ru [92.53.104.116]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id CA1AF8FC2E for ; Mon, 16 Nov 2009 12:16:25 +0000 (UTC) Received: from [213.148.20.85] (helo=hive.panopticon) by smtp.timeweb.ru with esmtpsa (TLS1.0:DHE_RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1NA0Ue-0001M7-VJ; Mon, 16 Nov 2009 15:15:40 +0300 Received: from hades.panopticon (hades.panopticon [192.168.0.32]) by hive.panopticon (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2FBBFB860; Mon, 16 Nov 2009 15:16:22 +0300 (MSK) Received: by hades.panopticon (Postfix, from userid 1000) id 29F3EB829; Mon, 16 Nov 2009 15:16:22 +0300 (MSK) Date: Mon, 16 Nov 2009 15:16:22 +0300 From: Dmitry Marakasov To: Eitan Adler Message-ID: <20091116121622.GA79691@hades.panopticon> References: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.20 (2009-06-14) Cc: ports@freebsd.org Subject: Re: RFC: svn for make fetch X-BeenThere: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Porting software to FreeBSD List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 16 Nov 2009 12:16:26 -0000 * Eitan Adler (eitanadlerlist@gmail.com) wrote: > I was hoping to get a bit more of a response to a recent posting of > mine with regard to using svn to fetch files for ports > My proposal: http://www.mail-archive.com/freebsd-ports@freebsd.org/msg23776.html > A summary of what has been going on: > http://wiki.freebsd.org/EitanAdler/ports-svn This was discussed many times before, and this is a bad idea. - No checksums -> security issue - No distfile caching/mirroring -> excess traffic consumption and horrible availability and I hope you're not even thinking of fetching from VCS without specifying exact revision. Some standard way of generating distfiles from VCS may be nice though, if it goes into separate mk-file and supports all major VCS. -- Dmitry Marakasov . 55B5 0596 FF1E 8D84 5F56 9510 D35A 80DD F9D2 F77D amdmi3@amdmi3.ru ..: jabber: amdmi3@jabber.ru http://www.amdmi3.ru