Clarification on fetch/extract targets

[Sam Lawrance]

On 17/06/2007, at 7:33 AM, Stephen Hurd wrote:

> Kris Kennaway wrote:
>>> Actually, I found it quite easy to have the port pull the sources  
>>> from svn.  Who are we concerned about making it easier for and  
>>> why (and how is it any easier?)
>>>
>>
>> Everyone behind a firewall that only allows fetching via HTTP/FTP,  
>> for
>> one.  Also everyone without live network access, and those with
>> pay-per-download who have a free local distfile mirror, etc.
>>
>> Tarballs are overwhelmingly preferred.
>>
>> Kris
>>
> Ok... I was looking at it from the standpoint of someone who wants  
> the newest version and doesn't care of the pkg-plist is stale.   
> They could just bump PORTREVISION and reinstall.
>
> So... how about this:
> - A distfile target which generates a distfile.  The idea being  
> that this would be the one on the local distfile mirror or what  
> have you.
> - A WITH_SVN option (defaults to off) which allows the end user to  
> specify he/she wants to use the subversion.
>
> In this case then, the end user would need to bump PORTREVISION and  
> enable the WITH_SVN option.

Rather than suggesting that users change PORTREVISION, just suggest  
that they set WITH_SVN and force an upgrade (eg. portupgrade -f  
yourport).