On Fri, Sep 09, 2011 at 02:30:52PM +0400, Lev Serebryakov wrote: > Hello, Freebsd-ports. > > I notice, that many software projects are hosted on social DVCS > hostings nowadays. > > Other common "feature" among them is absence of "official" tarballs > for versions. I don't say, that ALL projects whith primary hosting on > these DVCS sites don't publish official tarballs. But many of them > don't. > > On other hand, all these DVCS sites provide way to download auto-generated > tarballs > for any tag or branch or revision. > > Maybe, we need support for this model to ports system directly? Like > we support SourceForge and other code hosting sites. >
The main problem with that is: we have no way to keep a valid sum of the distfiles if it is autogenerated (in particular with github) and this sum is really important. regards, Bapt
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