From owner-freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Nov 9 08:09:05 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 3F72D1065672 for ; Mon, 9 Nov 2009 08:09:05 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from dougb@FreeBSD.org) Received: from mail2.fluidhosting.com (mx21.fluidhosting.com [204.14.89.4]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C1CFB8FC14 for ; Mon, 9 Nov 2009 08:09:04 +0000 (UTC) Received: (qmail 25247 invoked by uid 399); 9 Nov 2009 08:09:03 -0000 Received: from localhost (HELO foreign.dougb.net) (dougb@dougbarton.us@127.0.0.1) by localhost with ESMTPAM; 9 Nov 2009 08:09:03 -0000 X-Originating-IP: 127.0.0.1 X-Sender: dougb@dougbarton.us Message-ID: <4AF7CE1D.5030401@FreeBSD.org> Date: Mon, 09 Nov 2009 00:09:01 -0800 From: Doug Barton Organization: http://SupersetSolutions.com/ User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.23 (X11/20090822) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Eitan Adler References: In-Reply-To: X-Enigmail-Version: 0.96.0 OpenPGP: id=D5B2F0FB Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit 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, 09 Nov 2009 08:09:05 -0000 Eitan Adler 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 I was really hoping that others would have more to say as well. My chief concern is that unless I'm missing something there is no way to provide checksums for the source files, correct? If that's true my gut reaction is "no freakin' way" but I'm willing to listen to arguments as to why this should be ok. I tend to agree with the other sentiments already expressed that in cases where svn is the only way a project distributes its source that maintainers ought to be putting together tarballs of specific versions. I don't really see that this is an overwhelming burden, but again I'm open to arguments as to why I might be wrong about this. Doug -- Improve the effectiveness of your Internet presence with a domain name makeover! http://SupersetSolutions.com/