Date: Mon, 31 May 1999 11:26:48 -0400 From: Tim Vanderhoek <vanderh@ecf.utoronto.ca> To: Max Khon <fjoe@iclub.nsu.ru> Cc: Satoshi - Ports Wraith - Asami <asami@FreeBSD.ORG>, mladavac@metropolitan.at, luigi@labinfo.iet.unipi.it, freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG, freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: a two-level port system? (fwd) Message-ID: <19990531112648.A12515@mad> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.4.05.9905312120320.59917-100000@iclub.nsu.ru>; from Max Khon on Mon, May 31, 1999 at 09:22:23PM %2B0700 References: <199905311410.HAA51369@silvia.hip.berkeley.edu> <Pine.BSF.4.05.9905312120320.59917-100000@iclub.nsu.ru>
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On Mon, May 31, 1999 at 09:22:23PM +0700, Max Khon wrote: > > It's hard to check out the port for an arbitrary version of program. > E.g.: try to check out port for samba 1.9.18p10 Well, samba was upgraded from 1.9.18p10 to 2.0.0 at Mon Jan 18 2:34:03 1999 UTC, so to checkout 1.9.18p10, $ cvs co -D "Mon Jan 18 1:34:03 1999 UTC" samba $ Actually, if you think about it a little, you'll notice that it becomes _harder_ to checkout a specific version of a port if the whole port is stored inside a single shar archive. [Consider: port import, port upgrade, port bugfix to patch-ac -- to checkout the original version of the port imported and include the bugfix to patch-ac is much harder if it's all shar'd up]. -- This is my .signature which gets appended to the end of my messages. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
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