Date: Fri, 9 Sep 2011 15:04:58 +0200 From: Baptiste Daroussin <bapt@FreeBSD.org> To: Lev Serebryakov <lev@FreeBSD.org> Cc: freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: [RFC] New ports idea: github / gitorious / bitbucket direct support. Message-ID: <20110909130458.GO31003@azathoth.lan> In-Reply-To: <765103585.20110909143052@serebryakov.spb.ru> References: <765103585.20110909143052@serebryakov.spb.ru>
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--Sr6hGnsCY8KeifOY Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Fri, Sep 09, 2011 at 02:30:52PM +0400, Lev Serebryakov wrote: > Hello, Freebsd-ports. >=20 > I notice, that many software projects are hosted on social DVCS > hostings nowadays. >=20 > Other common "feature" among them is absence of "official" tarballs > for versions. I don't say, that ALL projects whith primary hosting on > these DVCS sites don't publish official tarballs. But many of them > don't. >=20 > On other hand, all these DVCS sites provide way to download auto-genera= ted tarballs > for any tag or branch or revision. >=20 > Maybe, we need support for this model to ports system directly? Like > we support SourceForge and other code hosting sites. >=20 The main problem with that is: we have no way to keep a valid sum of the distfiles if it is autogenerated (in particular with github) and this sum is really important. regards, Bapt --Sr6hGnsCY8KeifOY Content-Type: application/pgp-signature -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.18 (FreeBSD) iEYEARECAAYFAk5qDvoACgkQ8kTtMUmk6ExQZwCeNh1pIZOQFUn19ljU+zZJL+oe uZ8AoL7DfU60V5p+ATbvARS6mPKAGH6H =kMsq -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --Sr6hGnsCY8KeifOY--
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