On Sat, May 25, 2013 at 01:29:09AM +0300, Kimmo Paasiala wrote: > As far as I know FreeBSD does not roll custom distfiles because of > very obvious issues with authenticity of the files. If you create a > custom distfile from let's say editors/vim as you suggest then who is > going to trust you to provide authentic sources of someone else's > work? Now when everything is separate and downloadable and verifiable > individually from the upstream vendor there's no problem with > authenticity.
There are some exceptions. For instance, www/chromium has a custom distfile. I think it would be reasonable to create one for editors/vim as well. -- Denny Lin _______________________________________________ freebsd-ports@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-ports To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-ports-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"
