On 18/06/2007, at 7:28 PM, Stephen Hurd wrote:
Sam Lawrance wrote:
On 17/06/2007, at 7:33 AM, Stephen Hurd wrote:
Kris Kennaway wrote:
Actually, I found it quite easy to have the port pull the
sources from svn. Who are we concerned about making it easier
for and why (and how is it any easier?)
Everyone behind a firewall that only allows fetching via HTTP/
FTP, for
one. Also everyone without live network access, and those with
pay-per-download who have a free local distfile mirror, etc.
Tarballs are overwhelmingly preferred.
Kris
Ok... I was looking at it from the standpoint of someone who
wants the newest version and doesn't care of the pkg-plist is
stale. They could just bump PORTREVISION and reinstall.
So... how about this:
- A distfile target which generates a distfile. The idea being
that this would be the one on the local distfile mirror or what
have you.
- A WITH_SVN option (defaults to off) which allows the end user
to specify he/she wants to use the subversion.
In this case then, the end user would need to bump PORTREVISION
and enable the WITH_SVN option.
Rather than suggesting that users change PORTREVISION, just
suggest that they set WITH_SVN and force an upgrade (eg.
portupgrade -f yourport).
You mean have it just grab the current head no matter what when
WITH_SVN is enabled? *shudder*
All kinds of arguments against that spring to mind...
- This is essentially an option to break the pkg-plist
- The current trunk may not build/work/etc so the option will only
work "sometimes"
- The version number becomes wrong if a later update to the port
increases the revision to something less than the current one, the
tools will "upgrade" it to an older version
These are just the ones that spring to mind initially... I'm sure
there are other wild and crazy things that would/could happen.
Maybe I don't understand what you're trying to do. What's the point
of bumping PORTREVISION?
For that matter, what's the point of WITH_SVN given what you've just
said?
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