On 05.01.2018 20:00, Greg Troxel wrote: > > Aleksej Lebedev <root%zta.lk@localhost> writes: > >> Hello, everyone! >> >> I just noticed many packages in wip that end on -git. >> They all use wip/mk/git-package.mk which seems to allow fetching >> sources directly from git. > > There are two separate things that git can mean. One is that the > upstream is hosted in git, which shouldn't affect the name. The other > is that the package is packaging an unreleased version of the package > and is expected to change semi-erratically. The point is not really > git, but "code from a VCS that does not have releases". Probably we > should have some standard suffix to mean this, but the Linux world uses > -devel to mean "the package parts you need to build against", and -dev > isn't different enough. So for now we have a mix of -svn and -git. > -devel is something different. Suffix -devel means that a package contains files for building from sources (in Linux distros). It can also mean that a package is in an unreleased version - for instance a weekly snapshot. -git, -svn, -hg, -fossil, -cvs (etc) purpose is to track HEAD/trunk/master of upstream VCS repository. -vcs packages are restricted strictly to pkgsrc-wip.
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