Re: port selfupdate, rsync, and tight firewalls

On Sep 6, 2006, at 2:17 PM, cssdev@... wrote:
> Might there be something else that could access the server using  
> the WebDAV protocol? I just tested sucking my own subversion  
> repository using wget. Apple doesn't include wget with Mac OS X  
> anymore, but there are wrapper scripts for curl that could do the  
> same thing. Perhaps one could fetch the updates for the subversion  
> port and its dependencies before compiling it? That approach could  
> ensure an updated subversion port without requiring a complete  
> fetch of the ports tree.

... but at this point, why don't we just have the 'port' command just  
be able to pull ports from a remote ports tree (ie, port install foo  
would always get the latest foo Portfile from the server)?

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