Re: [PATCH] proposed v3 source format using .git.tar.gz
On Sun, Oct 07, 2007 at 11:10:41AM -0500, Manoj Srivastava wrote:
> Hmm. If I have just the ./{arch} directory, and none of the
> files, then arch thinks the files have just been deleted; and you can't
> just check out stuff, since the tree is up to date. Ah. Baz undo
> restores all the files, cool.
I presume you could ship all the "normal" files in one tarball,
the .arch-ids and {arch} directories in another, and the debian/
directory in a third.
That would give the NMUer a full working tree to run $TLA diff
in. Only shipping a grab file would burden the end user with
a need for http access and no guarantee that the source will
be available.
> The problem here is that the repository in question _has_ to be
> registered by the user running this; so all the users would have to
> register the arch repository in question before unpacking the source
> tarball in order to tell baz/tla how to get access to the repo. Is this
> going to be an issue?
It shouldn't be too difficult to add an --autoregister switch to tla
grab, though I don't know how safe it'd be.
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