Date: Mon, 16 Nov 2009 19:39:24 -0900 From: Mel Flynn <mel.flynn+fbsd.ports@mailing.thruhere.net> To: Dmitry Marakasov <amdmi3@amdmi3.ru> Cc: ports@freebsd.org, Eitan Adler <eitanadlerlist@gmail.com> Subject: Re: RFC: svn for make fetch Message-ID: <ceb3742532e6ac07cc450aafafa6022e@sbmail.office-on-the.net> In-Reply-To: <20091116121622.GA79691@hades.panopticon> References: <a0777e080911080731w461e6733peb0a5473acf07aa8@mail.gmail.com> <20091116121622.GA79691@hades.panopticon>
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On Mon, 16 Nov 2009 15:16:22 +0300, Dmitry Marakasov <amdmi3@amdmi3.ru> wrote: > * Eitan Adler (eitanadlerlist@gmail.com) wrote: >=20 >> 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 >=20 > 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 Actually, I *had* a patch that got the source from svn, tarred it and checksummed it, with little modification to the do-fetch target and abusing FETCH_* variables. The unsolvable problem I ran in to, is that svn doesn't adjust timestamps for directories on export, so the checksum for the tar was always different. Hacking svn export was outside my timeframe and hacking tar to grow an option that sets all created dirs to a fixed time stamp, seemed too hackish, so I let it go. -- Mel
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