Re: potato-cd scripts: Necessary changes in CVS?
Steve McIntyre <stevem@chiark.greenend.org.uk> writes:
> On 25 May 1999, Jens Ritter wrote:
>
> >I patched the debian-cd scripts supplied in the cvs.debian.org
> >repository so that it is possible to generate CDs for the unstable
> >branch of debian.
>
> OK, great.
>
> >I would like to submit my changes to a new branch in cvs, but as I am
> >a 100% newbie with cvs branches I need a helping hand:
> >
> >I first have to checkout the original sources, then use the -b rtag
> >command to create a new branch. I thought of using "potato_cd" as
> >branch name. Is that ok? Do I now have to checkout this branch
> >before proceeding? Or can I copy my modifications to my working
> >directory and check them in immediately?
>
> I'd suggest that you check potato stuff in on the trunk and instead make a
> branch for slink updates. Use something like
ok.
>
> cvs tag -b slink_cd
>
> to make a branch tag at the current point before you check in...
Hmmm, where do I check in then? In the slink_cd trunk or in the main
trunk?
Wouldn't it be better to create a potato_cd branch, because we
will at some point merge my changes back in the main trunk. See bottom.
> >Secondly I wonder if I should create potato1.[info|list|needed|volid]
> >and such, or if the slink[12345].* files should be renamed
> >(e.g. debian-cd[12345].*)?
>
> I'd suggest cd[12345].* personally, just as an easier option.
As Brandon noted: There might be differences in these files from
branch to branch. I suggest the following:
Let's create ./slink/ ./potato/ ./$codename/ directories in debian-cd
where the "master" copies of files cd[12345xyz].* reside. Instead of
copying the slink[12345].* files to the temporary directory, copy
the branch specific files. This will make it possible to support
different sets of cds with different layout.
At the moment I only did a s/slink/potato/g and s/stable/unstable/g on
the scripts. I will rewrite it, so that the branch of the cd mirror
can be edited into the scripts using variables (later on this should be
made a command line option).
Let's first begin doing that in a potato_cd branch, and when the
script works ok for slink cds, too, merge that back into slink_cd.
But first I suggest we rename slink_cd to debian_cd. This can be done
without problems in the current release.
Jens
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