any standard method to fetch a port's sources from svn (or cvs, etc) ?

Thierry Thomas thierry at FreeBSD.org
Sun Sep 9 09:47:15 PDT 2007


Le Dim  9 sep 07 à 17:56:05 +0200, Kris Kennaway <kris at FreeBSD.org>
 écrivait :

> It is recommended not to do this.  Some of our users are behind 
> firewalls and cannot fetch except via HTTP and FTP.  Instead, you need 
> to create your own tarball of the sources checked out from the VCS, 
> possibly using a "helper" makefile target that fetches from VCS and 
> creates the tarball for republication by you on MASTER_SITE_LOCAL.

There is an example in ports/www/tidy-devel/Makefile.
-- 
Th. Thomas.


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