Using darcs to retrieve source in ports

[Stanislav Sedov]

On Sat, 29 Jul 2006 13:52:20 +0100
Ian Morrison <ian at darq.net> mentioned:

> Hi there,
> 
> I'm trying to build a port of PacketForth, (https://packets.goto10.org/) 
> and it's going pretty well.  However, as it's still in the early stages 
> of development, there are no tarfiles available online, and the 
> preferred method of fetching the source is by using the darcs version 
> control system.  The single command I ran to get the source was "darcs 
> get http://url" and I was wondering it's possible for a port to retrieve 
> files in this way.  I've been following the porters handbook, but it 
> assumes use fetch(1) for everything.  Should I tar up the sources 
> periodically and host them on a webserver somewhere?  Is that the 
> preferred way of doing things?
> 
> Thanks for any help guys,

It would be better to create a snapshot and upload it somewhere.
Although it is impossible to redefine do-fetch target and get
files  from CVS/darcs it would be hard to check files consistency,
since their sizes will vary depending on snapshot date/time/revision,
so you should provide tag/date switch to repository checkout program.

Additionally, you should issue own checksum checking code or add
every file in distinfo/DISTFILES.

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