Ryan Schmidt <ryandesign@macports.org> writes:
By the way, it should be noted in the new guide that export tarballs are preferred over checkout ones. I don't need all of those .svn and CVS, I just want the sources.
You mean to state that it is preferred that port authors checkout from CVS, tar up only the source directories, and put it on macports.org? As opposed to using fetch.type cvs?
I think he means it is preferable to tar up the output of "svn export" (or whatever the equivalent CVS command is) and put it on macports.org rather than tar up the output of "svn checkout" (or equivalent CVS command) and put it on macports.org.
I see. I didn't know that. But if that is true, I would think it is safe to assume that fetch types "svn" and "cvs" do an "export" or export equivalent. Is that true? Mark