On Tue, Jun 01, 1999 at 01:21:46AM +1000, Andrew Kenneth Milton wrote: > > How about optionally tarring the 'files' and 'patches' subdirs > (into seperate tarfiles or as one tarfile) to be extracted when the port > is needed. This would make cvsupping ports 'harder' I would imagine,
Has anyone involved in this discussion tried using the portcheckout script? It's in devel/portcheckout. It checkouts the current version of a port and its dependencies on demand. At one time, I gave wosch patches to optionally use ftp. Due to changes on wcarchive, I'm not sure those work anymore. Actually, I suspect the whole thing is suffering from a little bitrot, but you should at least have a look... -- This is my .signature which gets appended to the end of my messages. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majord...@freebsd.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
