porting of SVN-only software

[Brooks Davis]

On Fri, May 16, 2008 at 09:08:25PM +0200, Gabor Kovesdan wrote:
> Wesley Shields escribi?:
>> On Fri, May 16, 2008 at 09:54:09PM +0300, Andriy Gapon wrote:
>>   
>>> Suppose there is a project that does not produce any official snapshots 
>>> or releases of its source-code, keeps all sources in SVN and the best it 
>>> does - declares a certain revision as stable or something similar.
>>> What would be the best way to create a FreeBSD port for such software?
>>> Any examples?
>>>     
>> 
>> My approach would be to produce a tarball of the checkout and work with
>> that.
> Agreed. The date of the checkout should be the PORTVERSION, for example 
> 20080516.

Alternativly, the global version number for the tree might be
appropriate for subversion source.

-- Brooks
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