Date: Wed, 15 Jun 2005 16:45:26 +1000 From: Sam Lawrance <boris@brooknet.com.au> To: Danny Howard <dannyman@toldme.com> Cc: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Building a port that fetches via CVS co Message-ID: <1118817926.3127.26.camel@dirk.no.domain> In-Reply-To: <20050614230730.GL84299@ratchet.nebcorp.com> References: <20050614230730.GL84299@ratchet.nebcorp.com>
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On Tue, 2005-06-14 at 16:07 -0700, Danny Howard wrote: > Hello, > > I am looking to build a "master port" to configure a system to house my > employer's web application. Ideally, the port could accept a release > tag and other CVS config data and check the software out of our CVS > server. Else, I can supply a tarball distfile in a seperate step. > > I swear I remember watching a few ports that got their distfiles from a > CVS server, but I could find nothing in the porter's handbook or in > bsd.port.mk about this. And trying to search for this question is > rather difficult, given that cvsup and ports are so intertwined. > > Does anyone have any pointers on this? Please reply-all, as I am not > subscribed to freebsd-ports. Thanks! ports/print/foomatic-db does this. The do-fetch target checks out the specified date from CVS and then rolls a distfile (so future local builds with the same date don't need to).
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