On Saturday, March 19, 2011 7:10:40 pm Garrett Cooper wrote: > On Sat, Mar 19, 2011 at 4:06 PM, Nathan Whitehorn > <nwhiteh...@freebsd.org> wrote: > > Author: nwhitehorn > > Date: Sat Mar 19 23:06:17 2011 > > New Revision: 219788 > > URL: http://svn.freebsd.org/changeset/base/219788 > > > > Log: > > Add support for checking out ports and doc trees from a CVS repository, > > in addition to CVSUP, and add support for alternate SVN roots for src. > > > > Requested by: jhb > > Although this seems good and all, wouldn't it make sense to split off > the pulling infrastructure into separate scripts so that someone could > have hooks to do: > > - pre-pull (create paths, whatever) > - pull > - post-pull (patch?) > > That way someone could choose any arbitrary SCM (git, hg, etc), > specify necessary configuration files, and apply local patches as > necessary.
The old release(7) infrastructure did do that (see things like LOCAL_PATCHES, EXTSRCDIR, LOCAL_SCRIPTS, etc.). However, we should definitely streamline the case for the tools that re@ will actually use for official releases (doc and ports from CVS, src from either CVS or SVN). -- John Baldwin _______________________________________________ svn-src-head@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/svn-src-head To unsubscribe, send any mail to "svn-src-head-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"