[csw-users] How can I get blastwave's package sources?

[Trygve Laugstøl]

Cory Omand wrote:
> On 5/15/07, Trygve Laugstøl <trygvis at inamo.no> wrote:
>> Dennis Clarke wrote:
>>>> Hi,
>>>> I am sorry, but I can not find how can I download sources of blastwave
>>>> package.
>>>> I am interested in patches, configure and build options, and additional
>>>> files like SMF manifests.
>>>> If there is a key for pkg-get I missed, please excuse me, but I can not
>>>> find it.
>>> We are still working on a full subversion repository for all sources and
>>> build scripts. A lot of information may be found at svn.blastwave.org.  I
>>> can put complete sources onto a DVD for you if you so desire but that would
>>> be many gigabytes of compressed sources.
>> Having the signed source tarballs (the upstream sources, not the .pkg
>> sources) in a repository on blastwave would be really useful as then I
>> would be sure that I would always be able to rebuild the package. I just
>> tried to rebuild several blastwave packages yesterday but was unable to
>> fetch the upstream sources.
> 
> Did you fetch the svn tree to build these packages?  If so, the source
> archive is fetched and compared to a "known good" md5sum.  If you just
> want to make sure your tarball is the same as the one we're using, you
> can have a look in the 'checksums' file in svn for the package in
> question.

Sure, but the problem is that the sources might be unavailable for many 
reasons like a new release was made and the old release was 
removed/moved or server is offline or even gone. I would like to have an 
assurance of that when I build a package I build from the *exact* same 
sources as the one in the archive was built. I bet that today it is 
practically impossible to rebuild any Blastwave release older than a 
year or even a half year.

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Trygve