Clarification on fetch/extract targets
Stephen Hurd
shurd at sasktel.net
Tue Jun 19 04:06:22 UTC 2007
Sam Lawrance wrote:
> Maybe I don't understand what you're trying to do. What's the point
> of bumping PORTREVISION?
>
> For that matter, what's the point of WITH_SVN given what you've just
> said?
PORTREVISION == SVN Revision
The port is capable of fetching a specific revision directly from
Subversion. To tell it to do so, enable the WITH_SVN option.
So, if you want a newer copy of the sources, you will need to bump
PORTREVISION or you'll just always get the same sources.
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