Date: Mon, 3 Mar 2003 14:23:29 -0800 From: Kris Kennaway <kris@obsecurity.org> To: "Mezz bsdforums.org" <reigncracks@hotmail.com> Cc: klammer@webonaut.com, gnome@freebsd.org, ports@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Is it allow port to do the CVS checkout by itself? Message-ID: <20030303222329.GB73631@rot13.obsecurity.org> In-Reply-To: <F30uwVZn6Qpixg3yF0Z0002a7b4@hotmail.com> References: <F30uwVZn6Qpixg3yF0Z0002a7b4@hotmail.com>
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--cmJC7u66zC7hs+87 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Mon, Mar 03, 2003 at 01:40:57PM -0500, Mezz bsdforums.org wrote: > Hello franz, >=20 > Yes, I am aware of those. What I am asking in the orignal question is=20 > that.. Is it allow to have "cvs checkout" in the Makefile? It means, ther= e=20 > will be no checksum, but will checkout the very lastest stable version of= =20 > VIM, patch lastest vim-gtk2 and install it. I seem to not able find this= =20 > info in the handbook about CVS. Hope, I am not blind. (I forgot to cc por= ts=20 > maillist..) :-) You shouldn't do CVS checkouts to fetch the port. Many people are behind firewalls and cannot do this. Instead, you could create a 'maintainer-fetch' target that performs the CVS fetch and creates a tarball, which will be uploaded to a distribution site, so users will fetch that instead. Kris --cmJC7u66zC7hs+87 Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.1 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQE+Y9XgWry0BWjoQKURAqwyAJwM8GDMCQw3bbMy9rwTO3U3p6O+NQCgpGRw fAUsDlJpQ3yL8Q+a/aU/nHo= =oJyS -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --cmJC7u66zC7hs+87-- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-ports" in the body of the message
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