From owner-freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Nov 26 14:16:59 2007 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8684216A41B for ; Mon, 26 Nov 2007 14:16:59 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from fbsd06+QT=f3b4e1e2@mlists.homeunix.com) Received: from turtle-out.mxes.net (turtle-out.mxes.net [216.86.168.191]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5CE1713C468 for ; Mon, 26 Nov 2007 14:16:59 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from fbsd06+QT=f3b4e1e2@mlists.homeunix.com) Received: from mxout-04.mxes.net (mxout-04.mxes.net [216.86.168.179]) by turtle-in.mxes.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9DFEC16409B for ; Mon, 26 Nov 2007 08:47:31 -0500 (EST) Received: from gumby.homeunix.com. (unknown [87.81.140.128]) (using TLSv1 with cipher DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by smtp.mxes.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id 67F30D05AB for ; Mon, 26 Nov 2007 08:47:25 -0500 (EST) Date: Mon, 26 Nov 2007 13:47:22 +0000 From: RW To: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Message-ID: <20071126134722.17160bf1@gumby.homeunix.com.> In-Reply-To: <474A1C28.8070106@FreeBSD.org> References: <4747A1FB.9000707@FreeBSD.org> <20071124151306.13d7368a@gumby.homeunix.com.> <474A1C28.8070106@FreeBSD.org> X-Mailer: Claws Mail 3.0.2 (GTK+ 2.12.1; i386-portbld-freebsd7.0) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: Re: Idea about the ports tree included in the release 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, 26 Nov 2007 14:16:59 -0000 On Sun, 25 Nov 2007 17:06:48 -0800 Doug Barton wrote: > RW wrote: > > On Fri, 23 Nov 2007 20:00:59 -0800 > > Doug Barton wrote: > >> How hard would it be to include the c[v]sup checkouts file > >> with the tarball ... > >> since you could start from there and immediately update to the > >> latest version without having to pull down the whole tree again. > > > > c[v]sup doesn't have to pull the whole tree again if it doesn't > > have a checkout file, ... > > I think you dramatically misunderstand what I'm suggesting, and why it > would be beneficial. I have, but I don't feel too bad about it, given that you are referring to a fairly subtle problem that isn't documented in the csup man-page, and was brought up in a sub-thread of an unnamed thread in a different mailing list. For the benefit of people that don't read everything in the stable list. http://permalink.gmane.org/gmane.os.freebsd.stable/51460