On Mar 5, 2009, at 1:18 AM, Ryan Schmidt wrote:
This change is bad because a port must never pull from a Subversion trunk. Doing so means that users installing the port at different times get different versions of the software, as upstream continues their development. Please use a distfile if possible, as the port used to do before your change. If that's not possible and accessing Subversion is the only option, then you should use a tag URL if possible. I see upstream has not created a tag for 1.2.1. They don't have a tag for 1.2 either. 1.2 seems to be the version currently being developed on trunk. So I question your choice of version number in this update. Without a tag, you must at least pin the checkout to a particular revision. In this case, was r24 the change you were interested in? Then use "svn.tag 24". Or perhaps a better option would be to leave the port at version 1.1 and just apply the minimum patches necessary to make it work properly.
I believe Subversion also lets you check out by date. Therefore, if you (the portfile author) has confirmed that everything is just peachy at 3:02PM, March 3rd 2009, then just checkout with --revision set to that date. You don't have to go looking for a specific tag.
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