ports using CVS repo to get sources

[Kris Kennaway]

On Fri, Jun 20, 2003 at 10:25:40AM -0700, Joshua Oreman wrote:

> > No, it's because you can't fetch from CVS behind a firewall, so some
> > people will never be able to build your port if it relies on CVS
> > fetching.
> 
> Why is this true? I thought pserver was a one way connection.

Many firewalls do not allow arbitrary outbound connections.

Kris
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