Re: Doing CVS based Package maintainence
Hi,
>>"Jim" == Jim Pick <jim@jimpick.com> writes:
Jim> [1 <text/plain; us-ascii (7bit)>]
>> c) cvs-upgrade Given a package a new upstream source (possibly
>> unpacked already), a package name/version, (or a debian/changelog
>> file) it imports the new upstream sources, and then checks out the
>> latest version (-jsource-dist:yesterday -jsource-dist:Today)
>> incorporating the new upstream patches.
>>
>> You should be ready to check things and commit them when satisfied.
Jim> Does this mean that we would have the opportunity to take a
Jim> standard Debian source package (imported into a vendor branch),
Jim> do our own custom modifications to it, and cvs-upgrade would
Jim> handle merging in the custom modifications with the upgraded
Jim> Debian source? Or would that be separate step? I've never used
Jim> cvs to track upstream sources, so I'm not clear on that.
Yes, to the extent that this is a machine mediated merge, and
you'll have to check the results or manually edit the file to
resolve overlapping/conflictiong changes (they are clearly marked in
the merged file).
IMHO it works quite well in most of the cases.
manoj
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