Sunday, December 30, 2018

Re: UPDATE: bsd.port.mk - Add GitLab support

On Sun, Dec 30, 2018 at 10:48:41PM +0000, Stuart Henderson wrote:
> On 2018/12/29 15:44, Edward Lopez-Acosta wrote:
> > Stuart,
> >
> > I am not sure I understand the question or the issues you refer to. Can you clarify for me so I can look more into it please?
> >
> > Are you also proposing the GitHub directives already provided are bad as well?
> >
> > On December 29, 2018 2:40:24 PM UTC, Stuart Henderson <stu@spacehopper.org> wrote:
> > >On 2018/12/29 08:24, Edward Lopez-Acosta wrote:
> > >> Any feedback for this?
> > >
> > >How is gitlab doing at keeping stable distfiles? If it's even worse
> > >than
> > >github (and I have a feeling it might be) then I wouldn't really want
> > >to
> > >encourage people using it directly as a source.
> >
>
> See https://marc.info/?l=openbsd-ports&m=151973450514279&w=2 for more about
> the problem.

I agree the situation is far from nice when using on-demand generated tarballs.
But, it's really handy for portroach, so we know when there's an update
available.

--
Antoine

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