On Sat, Dec 02, 2006 at 05:08:06PM +0100, simone@ wrote:

On Fri, Dec 01, 2006 at 09:08:16PM -0500, Brett Goulder wrote:

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I'm just going to paste my proposal below, please comment on it.

1. What is this proposal about? It's about laying down basic guidelines for writing Pkgfile's which deal with CVS/SVN checkouts, in order to standardise this. The reason I want to standardise this is because Pkgfile's that handle CVS/SVN/whatever tend to use their own way of doing things, for example Han's Pkgfile's checkout stuff live and others use snapshots.

I think live checkouts should be generally avoided. Better providing a snapshot (when not available upstream) and update it from time to time. This would make the ports more 'predictable', and this is especially needed since we're already using a bleeding edge package :-)

fetching from repository by revision or tag should produce predictable results, just the same as tarballs (as opposite to fetching from trunk or branches).

Regards, Simone

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