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

[Markus Weissmann]

On 5 Jan 2008, at 22:42, Ryan Schmidt wrote:

> On Jan 3, 2008, at 05:11, Anders F Björklund wrote:
>
>> 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.
>
>> 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 do.


Regards,

-Markus

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