Date: Tue, 30 May 2000 16:15:02 -0700 (PDT) From: Kris Kennaway <kris@FreeBSD.org> To: Dan Langille <dan@freebsddiary.org> Cc: ports@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: where did mail/qpopper3 come from? Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.4.21.0005301613260.54064-100000@freefall.freebsd.org> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.4.21.0005311107360.59192-100000@ducky.nz.freebsd.org>
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On Wed, 31 May 2000, Dan Langille wrote: > I've heard of repo copies before, but not seen any practical application > for them. I assume popper3 is not an "official" port until a later > stage. It would become "official" after a commit (which in turn would > generate a message to the cvs-all mailing list) [1]. Right. They're done to preserve the history of the files, so that people doing a 'cvs log' will see history stretching back to pre-3.0 versions, in this case. It actually happens quite a bit (the other major use is if files need to be moved from one part of the tree to another). > [1] - for those that haven't guessed already, my questions were entirely > selfish and I was worried I'd missed something about creation of new > ports. I was asking from a http://freshports.org/ point of view. :_) Kris ---- In God we Trust -- all others must submit an X.509 certificate. -- Charles Forsythe <forsythe@alum.mit.edu> To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-ports" in the body of the message
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