[Mageia-dev] removing packages from svn

[Maarten Vanraes]

Op vrijdag 18 maart 2011 23:00:22 schreef Ahmad Samir:
> On 18 March 2011 18:41, Olivier Blin <mageia at blino.org> wrote:
> > nicolas vigier <boklm at mars-attacks.org> writes:
> >> Hello,
> >> 
> >> When we are removing a package from svn because it is no more wanted on
> >> the repository, we usually do "svn rm". However it makes it more
> >> difficult to see old packages, or see it existed if we want to reimport
> >> it. So I think it would be better to move it to an other directory.
> >> 
> >> Packages are currently in this directory :
> >>  svn+ssh://svnweb.mageia.org/svn/packages/cauldron
> >> With binary files in :
> >>  svn+ssh://svnweb.mageia.org/svn/binrepos/cauldron
> >> 
> >> And I think we could create this one to move removed packages :
> >>  svn+ssh://svnweb.mageia.org/svn/packages/obsoletes
> >> And the same for binrepos :
> >>  svn+ssh://svnweb.mageia.org/svn/binrepos/obsoletes
> >> 
> >> mgarepo can have a command to remove a package, and move it to the
> >> obsoletes directory on both repositories (as suggested in bug #318).
> >> 
> >> What do you think ?
> > 
> > It makes sense.
> > But why the extra "s" in the "obsoletes" name?
> > "obsolete" seems better
> > 
> > --
> > Olivier Blin - blino
> 
> I agree too, and having a command to remove the package from the
> mirror should lessen sysadm work with regards to this (though I guess
> some restrictions should be enforced... e.g. moving glibc from the
> repos shouldn't be allowed for everyone....).
> 
> Would it make sense that when doing 'mgarepo import' that the
> /obsolete/ contents are checked too and the import is not allowed if
> it exists in /obsolete/ ? this way instead of importing the package
> afresh, an 'svn mv' should work, and the svn log is kept...

nice thinking! i hadn't thought of that.