[32446] trunk/dports/sysutils/rpm-devel/Portfile

[Anders F Björklund]

Ryan Schmidt wrote:

>>>> Perhaps, but these -devel ports usally build from tip of trunk so 
>>>> they all had revision "0"...
>>>
>>> Ports should never build from tip of trunk or HEAD or similar 
>>> concepts.....
>>
>> These do.
>
> But that's not reproducible, and I thought we always wanted that. If I 
> install a specific version of a port today, I should get the same 
> software if I install that same version of that port tomorrow. By 
> fetching from HEAD, you break that assumption.

I understand what you are saying. I've only done it on some "-devel" 
ports, not on any release ports.

>> Not sure what the alternative would be, should I set up a cron job to 
>> commit a Portfile daily ?
>
> I see for example that Markus commits a new version of gcc43 every 
> week or so. I hope he tests it before committing, however.

I will probably move to snapshot versions instead, revision them by 
date or something like that...

--anders