Re: UPDATE: bsd.port.mk - Add GitLab support

2019-01-02 Thread Stuart Henderson
On 2019/01/02 11:59, Charles A Daniels wrote: > > The alternative is to mirror stable distfiles. > > Mirror them where? Someone will have to pony up the developer time and > infrastructure (hardware, disk space, bandwidth) to make that happen at > any kind of scale. Wherever is convenient for

Re: UPDATE: bsd.port.mk - Add GitLab support

2019-01-02 Thread Juan Francisco Cantero Hurtado
On Wed, Jan 02, 2019 at 11:59:51AM -0500, Charles A Daniels wrote: [...] > > If that happens and the distfiles prove unstable we will need to do > > *something* though .. and we won't be the only ones, any packagers that > > check distfiles (either by hashes or by pgp signatures as is more common

Re: UPDATE: bsd.port.mk - Add GitLab support

2019-01-02 Thread Charles A Daniels
Marc, > I would very much be in favor of people providing hosting services where this > does not exist, and to have an actual FAQ of things to tell upstream so that > they prepare actual properly tagged releases on platforms such as github. I think an FAQ page to explain to porters whats going

Re: UPDATE: bsd.port.mk - Add GitLab support

2019-01-02 Thread Stuart Henderson
On 2018/12/31 19:01, Antoine Jacoutot wrote: > On Mon, Dec 31, 2018 at 05:45:19PM +0100, Marc Espie wrote: > > Adding more fluff to bsd.port.mk to support this style of code is fairly > > disturbing. > > > > I don't like the github stuff too much, it's somewhat error-prone and there > > is

Re: UPDATE: bsd.port.mk - Add GitLab support

2019-01-02 Thread Stuart Henderson
On 2018/12/31 11:28, Charles A Daniels wrote: > On Sun, 2018-12-30 at 23:57 +0100, Antoine Jacoutot wrote: > > On Sun, Dec 30, 2018 at 10:48:41PM +, Stuart Henderson wrote: > > > On 2018/12/29 15:44, Edward Lopez-Acosta wrote: > > > > Stuart, > > > > > > > > I am not sure I understand the

Re: UPDATE: bsd.port.mk - Add GitLab support

2019-01-02 Thread Marc Espie
On Mon, Dec 31, 2018 at 07:01:16PM +0100, Antoine Jacoutot wrote: > On Mon, Dec 31, 2018 at 05:45:19PM +0100, Marc Espie wrote: > > Adding more fluff to bsd.port.mk to support this style of code is fairly > > disturbing. > > > > I don't like the github stuff too much, it's somewhat error-prone

Re: UPDATE: bsd.port.mk - Add GitLab support

2018-12-31 Thread Antoine Jacoutot
On Mon, Dec 31, 2018 at 05:45:19PM +0100, Marc Espie wrote: > Adding more fluff to bsd.port.mk to support this style of code is fairly > disturbing. > > I don't like the github stuff too much, it's somewhat error-prone and there > is regular traffic on ports-changes proving it. > > Adding a

Re: UPDATE: bsd.port.mk - Add GitLab support

2018-12-31 Thread Marc Espie
Adding more fluff to bsd.port.mk to support this style of code is fairly disturbing. I don't like the github stuff too much, it's somewhat error-prone and there is regular traffic on ports-changes proving it. Adding a SECOND source of problems does not seem like the way to go. There's also the

Re: UPDATE: bsd.port.mk - Add GitLab support

2018-12-31 Thread Charles A Daniels
On Sun, 2018-12-30 at 23:57 +0100, Antoine Jacoutot wrote: > On Sun, Dec 30, 2018 at 10:48:41PM +, Stuart Henderson wrote: > > On 2018/12/29 15:44, Edward Lopez-Acosta wrote: > > > Stuart, > > > > > > I am not sure I understand the question or the issues you refer to. Can > > > you clarify

Re: UPDATE: bsd.port.mk - Add GitLab support

2018-12-30 Thread Antoine Jacoutot
On Sun, Dec 30, 2018 at 10:48:41PM +, Stuart Henderson wrote: > On 2018/12/29 15:44, Edward Lopez-Acosta wrote: > > Stuart, > > > > I am not sure I understand the question or the issues you refer to. Can you > > clarify for me so I can look more into it please? > > > > Are you also

Re: UPDATE: bsd.port.mk - Add GitLab support

2018-12-30 Thread Stuart Henderson
On 2018/12/29 15:44, Edward Lopez-Acosta wrote: > Stuart, > > I am not sure I understand the question or the issues you refer to. Can you > clarify for me so I can look more into it please? > > Are you also proposing the GitHub directives already provided are bad as well? > > On December 29,

Re: UPDATE: bsd.port.mk - Add GitLab support

2018-12-29 Thread Edward Lopez-Acosta
Stuart, I am not sure I understand the question or the issues you refer to. Can you clarify for me so I can look more into it please? Are you also proposing the GitHub directives already provided are bad as well? On December 29, 2018 2:40:24 PM UTC, Stuart Henderson wrote: >On 2018/12/29

Re: UPDATE: bsd.port.mk - Add GitLab support

2018-12-29 Thread Stuart Henderson
On 2018/12/29 08:24, Edward Lopez-Acosta wrote: > Any feedback for this? How is gitlab doing at keeping stable distfiles? If it's even worse than github (and I have a feeling it might be) then I wouldn't really want to encourage people using it directly as a source.

Re: UPDATE: bsd.port.mk - Add GitLab support

2018-12-29 Thread Edward Lopez-Acosta
Any feedback for this? Edward Lopez-Acosta On 12/16/18 9:11 AM, Edward Lopez-Acosta wrote: Hello, I spent some time and added GitLab support to bsd.port.mk in a similar manner as GitHub. Since Microsoft's acquisition of GitHub a large number of projects, including major ones like the

UPDATE: bsd.port.mk - Add GitLab support

2018-12-16 Thread Edward Lopez-Acosta
Hello, I spent some time and added GitLab support to bsd.port.mk in a similar manner as GitHub. Since Microsoft's acquisition of GitHub a large number of projects, including major ones like the freedesktop project, have migrated to GitLab. I also have a number of projects at GitLab that I