Date: Sat, 29 Jul 2006 13:52:20 +0100 From: Ian Morrison <ian@darq.net> To: ports@freebsd.org Subject: Using darcs to retrieve source in ports Message-ID: <44CB5A04.40209@darq.net>
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Hi there, I'm trying to build a port of PacketForth, (https://packets.goto10.org/) and it's going pretty well. However, as it's still in the early stages of development, there are no tarfiles available online, and the preferred method of fetching the source is by using the darcs version control system. The single command I ran to get the source was "darcs get http://url" and I was wondering it's possible for a port to retrieve files in this way. I've been following the porters handbook, but it assumes use fetch(1) for everything. Should I tar up the sources periodically and host them on a webserver somewhere? Is that the preferred way of doing things? Thanks for any help guys, ian
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