Automatic Port

Bryan Drewery bryan at shatow.net
Thu Sep 6 13:34:10 UTC 2012


On 9/5/2012 11:57 PM, Cy Schubert wrote:
> Hi all,
> 
> I'm considering a -devel port which checks out from our upline's VCS repo, 
> also generating a dynamic plist. I'm sure this is possible. Are there any 
> examples of this?
> 
> 

AFAIK it had only been done with 1 port, and that has been reverted due
to not having a known distinfo.

The preferred way is to just do snapshot updates. That way the user is
alerted to new versions. Otherwise they are sitting on this "9999"
version forever until they *force* reinstall to get an upgrade.


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Regards,
Bryan Drewery
bdrewery at freenode/EFNet


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