Date: Fri, 25 Mar 2005 18:55:48 -0800 From: Kris Kennaway <kris@obsecurity.org> To: sergei@gnezdov.net, freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Subject: Re: cvs as port's download source Message-ID: <20050326025548.GA64979@xor.obsecurity.org> In-Reply-To: <20050325073540.GA95923@isis.sigpipe.cz> References: <slrnd47ck3.7h1.use-reply-to@gnezdov.net> <20050325073540.GA95923@isis.sigpipe.cz>
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--/9DWx/yDrRhgMJTb Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Fri, Mar 25, 2005 at 08:35:40AM +0100, Roman Neuhauser wrote: > # use-reply-to@gnezdov.net / 2005-03-25 06:40:39 +0000: > > Does it make sense to create a FreeBSD port with download location > > beeing CVS tree at some particular day? >=20 > You mean instead of fetching a tarball from MASTER_SITES it would > check out a working copy from a particular date, and build that? >=20 > There are / were several ports that do exactly this. It's not a good idea, because e.g. anyone behind a firewall will be unable to fetch this port. Kris --/9DWx/yDrRhgMJTb Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.0 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQFCRM80Wry0BWjoQKURAuE4AJ9O0Sg9HfsEOLtZpzH98SmY7qmSRwCgrsVS g993G4oqPxPvkn1OhZ7asdk= =JyPP -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --/9DWx/yDrRhgMJTb--
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