Date: Fri, 24 May 2013 20:32:57 -0500 From: Jimmy <ljboiler@gmail.com> To: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Subject: Re: The vim port needs a refresh Message-ID: <20130525013257.GA72498@jmobile.jimmy.net> In-Reply-To: <20130525002018.GB16987@mail.hs.ntnu.edu.tw> References: <20130524212318.B967FE6739@smtp.hushmail.com> <CA%2B7WWSdo4M28WgvUgKo4Y2vCz2U%2BZVUMih7%2BvMNYgbdenbj1Tw@mail.gmail.com> <20130525002018.GB16987@mail.hs.ntnu.edu.tw>
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Perhaps one might ask the VIM developers themselves to provide a tarball/zip of the patches along with the individual patches in their distributions, pointing out the huge number of patches that piled up for this particular VIM release and the problems it caused trying to download them individually... (if they're going to wait for another 2 1/2 years / 1000+ patches for their next release, they might consider it) Jimmy On Sat, May 25, 2013 at 08:20:19AM +0800, Denny Lin wrote: > On Sat, May 25, 2013 at 01:29:09AM +0300, Kimmo Paasiala wrote: > > As far as I know FreeBSD does not roll custom distfiles because of > > very obvious issues with authenticity of the files. If you create a > > custom distfile from let's say editors/vim as you suggest then who is > > going to trust you to provide authentic sources of someone else's > > work? Now when everything is separate and downloadable and verifiable > > individually from the upstream vendor there's no problem with > > authenticity. > > There are some exceptions. For instance, www/chromium has a custom > distfile. I think it would be reasonable to create one for editors/vim > as well. > > -- > Denny Lin > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-ports@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-ports > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-ports-unsubscribe@freebsd.org"
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