Re: a package without a source tarball?

[Joerg Sonnenberger <joerg%britannica.bec.de@localhost>]

On Sun, Jun 22, 2008 at 03:06:35PM -0400, Greg Troxel wrote:
> I think it would be good to have explicit support for svn as part of
> pkgsrc, so that one can give a URL, perhaps even with a tag.  I haven't
> looked at the wip stuff, but conceptually it makes sense.

There is still a policy that we want released software in pkgsrc.
Fetching arbitrary versions from svn doesn't exactly follow that
policy.

Joerg