Date: Mon, 12 Jul 1999 01:06:23 -0700 (PDT) From: asami@FreeBSD.org (Satoshi - Ports Wraith - Asami) To: green@FreeBSD.org Cc: obrien@FreeBSD.org, sgk@troutmask.apl.washington.edu, cvs-committers@FreeBSD.org, cvs-all@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: cvs commit: ports/devel/linux-devel - Imported sources Message-ID: <199907120806.BAA68145@silvia.hip.berkeley.edu> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.4.10.9907092314290.85960-100000@janus.syracuse.net> (green@FreeBSD.org) References: <Pine.BSF.4.10.9907092314290.85960-100000@janus.syracuse.net>
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* From: "Brian F. Feldman" <green@FreeBSD.org> * On Fri, 9 Jul 1999, David O'Brien wrote: * > Why does the history not belong to this port? The functionality of the * > port is the same. Just because the internal organization, distfile, and * > PLIST changed does not make this a brand new port that FreeBSD has never * > seen before. * * By that reasoning, all MTAs (for instance) or (another instance) MP3 players * would be repository copied. The justification in this case is that it is a * brand new port, which it is. It's not based on the same "source" necessarily, * so it is not the same port. The difference here is that MTA foo doesn't usually replace MTA bar (in the ports tree, not on people's machines if they choose to switch :). The ports tree is cleaned out every few months by removing stuff in the Attic. History of old ports will be lost forever if they aren't preserved in some way. If it truly is gone, there's nothing we can do about it, but if it is replaced (by something whether it comes from the same source or not), we try to keep them by copying it first. All this is in the cvsguide.txt, of course. But people don't seem to read it these days. :) Satoshi To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe cvs-all" in the body of the message
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