Re: ocaml 3.07 packages.
On Mon, Jul 07, 2003 at 10:32:35PM +0200, Sven Luther wrote:
> On Mon, Jul 07, 2003 at 10:26:23PM +0200, Ralf Treinen wrote:
> > On Mon, Jul 07, 2003 at 10:04:38PM +0200, Sven Luther wrote:
> >
> > > Ok, let me recapitulate, we have decided to store the .orig.tar.gz
> > > tarball, and put the debian directory in the SVN repository ? If there
> > > is a new upstream release, there is a new .orig.tar.gz ? Why not put the
> > > whole upstream tarball in uncompressed form in SVN then ? It would spare
> > > space in the long time.
> >
> > I think the argument was that we have no easy way to detect when
> > files should be removed from the repository. Maybe Branden will
> > tell us in Oslo how to do this (he will talk about managing
> > debian packages by subversion) :-)
> >
> > Anyway, space it is not really a limitation for now. The ocaml
> > source tree is big, OK, but how many ocaml releases are there
> > per year?
>
> One, two if they botched the first one. The real problem is if we are
> going to add CVS snapshots, like i am doing currently.
>
> > > Also, how do we make the link between a given .orig.tar.gz and its
> > > corresponding debian directory ? Do we use release tags or something
> > > such in the branches ?
> >
> > The top entry in the changelog gives the name of the orig.tar.gz.
> > Remember that in svn version numbers apply to the complete repository,
> > not to single files as in cvs.
>
> Mmm,
>
> > I find the opkg-buildpackage script that I posted some days earlier
> > to this list useful.
>
> Ok, i will look at it again.
>
> Friendly,
>
> Sven Luther
>
>
Hello,
The mains problems with putting other thing than the .orig.tar.gz are :
- if the upstream do something which are not SVN compatible ( symlink
for example ).
- if the maintainer modify and commit some files ( it is really hard in
a big tree to discover that a particular files has been commited and
that is not the upstream file, i have an experience and it was not
very funny to discover, de-tag and re-tag ).
Well, i am not god, so maybe what i said is silliy ( but i hope not ).
>From my point of view, commiting .orig is the best way to be the most
compatible with upstream tar...
Regard
Sylvain LE GALL
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