ports using CVS repo to get sources

[Erik Greenwald]

On Fri, Jun 20, 2003 at 05:10:15PM -0700, Kris Kennaway wrote:
> 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

a couple more reasons to avoid CVS in a port...
1) the user may not have cvs installed (NO_CVS=yes)
2) you can't vrfy the integrity or bsd freindliness of the src in the cvs
   repo, so it's reasonably possible that the port will be unbuildable at
   any given time.

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