Re: using svn to fetch for ports (yet again!)

2009-11-05 Thread Brooks Davis
On Thu, Nov 05, 2009 at 10:17:10PM +0200, Eitan Adler wrote: > > I'd much rather see this used as something that reduced the amount of > > code required for maintainers to build tarballs from SVN. ?For example > > something similar in spirit to what I've done in devel/llvm-devel. ?That > > means mi

Re: using svn to fetch for ports (yet again!)

2009-11-05 Thread Eitan Adler
> I'd much rather see this used as something that reduced the amount of > code required for maintainers to build tarballs from SVN.  For example > something similar in spirit to what I've done in devel/llvm-devel.  That > means mirroring or otherwise transfering the source around is possible. Would

Re: using svn to fetch for ports (yet again!)

2009-11-04 Thread Brooks Davis
On Wed, Nov 04, 2009 at 08:23:02PM +0200, Eitan Adler wrote: > I have a small patch to bsd.port.mk which would allow a port to > replace its do-fetch with a svn export of a /specific revision/ of a > remote repo. > > I know there have been some attempts at trying this before and from > what I've b

using svn to fetch for ports (yet again!)

2009-11-04 Thread Eitan Adler
I have a small patch to bsd.port.mk which would allow a port to replace its do-fetch with a svn export of a /specific revision/ of a remote repo. I know there have been some attempts at trying this before and from what I've been reading I addressed some of the major concerns: 1) Past attempts didn