On 6 September 2012 14:33, Bryan Drewery <[email protected]> wrote: > On 9/5/2012 11:57 PM, Cy Schubert wrote: >> Hi all, >> >> I'm considering a -devel port which checks out from our upline's VCS repo, >> also generating a dynamic plist. I'm sure this is possible. Are there any >> examples of this? >> >> > > AFAIK it had only been done with 1 port, and that has been reverted due > to not having a known distinfo. > > The preferred way is to just do snapshot updates. That way the user is > alerted to new versions. Otherwise they are sitting on this "9999" > version forever until they *force* reinstall to get an upgrade. >
Hm, however, you could make a target to just update to latest snapshot. http://www.bayofrum.net/~crees/scratch/Makefile-snippet (imperfect, but you should get the idea). Best case scenario, make nextsnap && port test && svn commit ;) Chris _______________________________________________ [email protected] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-ports To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[email protected]"
