Re: git: 2b0da956a025 - main - UPDATING: Add entry regarding glib20 update

On Fri, Apr 4, 2025 at 8:16 PM Colin Percival <cperciva@tarsnap.com> wrote:
>
> I've been a FreeBSD committer for over 20 years and this is the first
> time I've heard that building ports on FreeBSD is not supported.

My phrasing was quite different from this.

> The release process builds code from ports because that's necessary for
> security and reproducibility; re@ doesn't control the pkg building systems.

I fail to see how building on a mutable host system contributes to
build's reproducibility more than building from an immutable system's
snapshot with any packages installed only as deps for a given build.

Anyways, I'm working on a fix for the initial issue.

P.S. For some reason I get each of your mail messages twice. Not sure
if this is a problem on your end or not.