[Bf-committers] Blender 2.?? FreeBSD official port

[pete larabell]

sorry for my ignorance, but is there anything i can do to help, or is this
something that BF just "does" ???

On Wed, Jan 12, 2011 at 10:23 AM, Campbell Barton <ideasman42 at gmail.com>wrote:

> On Wed, Jan 12, 2011 at 3:48 PM, Kent Mein <mein at cs.umn.edu> wrote:
> > In reply to Campbell Barton (ideasman42 at gmail.com):
> >>
> >> When we do releases we should do this but sometimes nobody does it.
> >>
> >> Arch linux package spec also complains of this...
> >> # Apparently, the blender guys refuse to release source tarballs for
> >> # intermediate releases that deal mainly with binaries but incorporate
> tiny
> >> # minor changes from cvs. Since I'm sick and tired of the urges of users
> that
> >> # look for release numbers only we make a messy PKGBUILD that can
> checkout cvs
> >> # tags if necessary.
> >>
> >> I'm not sure who's responsible for uploading source for releases,
> >> if nobody else wants to I can make a script to upload exported source
> >> tree and upload on release.
> >>
> >
> > I've done them a lot of the times.  I know I haven't done all of them
> > though.  I haven't really been on top of it, because we sometimes
> > do multiple builds of things and its easier to wait a day or two before
> > making it.
> >
> > I wouldn't say it's my offical job, but I've tried to make sure its there
> > every release, and the only times I haven't done it, are when someone
> > else has done it first.
> >
> > It's maybe been questionable to do them on alpha's or betas but if you
> > look at the source dir I think we have one for every single release we
> > have had.
> >
> > Honestly thought I wonder if we really should be doing them at all
> anymore.
> > I guess if people still want them, but I know I haven't used a tarball
> > of blender for at least 8 years.  I's say they are a waste of space at
> > this point.  Our svn tree is online and has clear tags for releases.
> >
> > Kent
>
> This is mainly useful for package spec files which reference a URL and
> a checksum, for building the package its quicker to download the
> archive and build rather then doing an svn checkout so I think it
> would be good to have, even for beta releases.
>
> --
> - Campbell
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