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It is still possible to do it using mgarepo, +</I>><i> but with a separate repository for binary files, it is more difficult. +</I>><i> The current version of mgarepo tries to find the right revision to use +</I>><i> for the binrepo (revision from the same date as the revision on the +</I>><i> specs repository), but it is not always working as expected. I started +</I>><i> to add an option to be able to specify the binrepo revision to use when +</I>><i> submiting, but after thinking about it, it's probably not a good idea, +</I>><i> because it becomes too complicate. +</I>><i> +</I>><i> With repsys it's also possible when submiting packages to give an URL +</I>><i> instead of a package name. This allows creating new branches for a +</I>><i> package. However we also have a problem with this with binrepo, as we +</I>><i> need to find the right path for the binary repository. We could add an +</I>><i> option to give the URL for the binaries, but I don't think it's a good +</I>><i> idea. +</I>><i> +</I>><i> So I propose to do this instead : +</I>><i> +</I>><i> - We won't allow using revision numbers when submiting packages. +</I>><i> Instead we always use the latest revision available on svn. I don't +</I>><i> think submit with a revision number are used much (but maybe I'm wrong ?) +</I>><i> and a branch copied from a revision can be used instead, to do the +</I>><i> same. And not supporting revision numbers will make mgarepo code more +</I>><i> simple. +</I>><i> +</I>><i> - We won't allow submit with a URL, but only with a package name (and +</I>><i> the right URL will be generated by the script receiving the submit request +</I>><i> on pkgsubmit). To allow using branches, instead we add a --branch option +</I>><i> to provide the name of a branch. If no branch name is provided we use +</I>><i> the package from this path : +</I>><i> /packages/cauldron/[packagename]/current +</I>><i> If a branch name is provided we use the package from this path : +</I>><i> /packages/cauldron/[packagename]/branches/[branchname] +</I>><i> And the same path in the binrepo. +</I>><i> Some commands can be added in mgarepo to create, remove, checkout branches. +</I>><i> +</I>><i> With this, the path for branches will be more clear, and the same for +</I>><i> all packages (contrary to Mandriva where packages could have some branches +</I>><i> in /packages/branches, or in /packages/updates, /packages/updates_release +</I>><i> or /packages/cooker or anywhere on the repository). +</I>><i> +</I>><i> +</I>><i> Does anyone see any problem with this ? Or other ideas, or comments ? +</I> +AFAICS the above branch scheme doesn't work well with changelog +generation. As changelog is generated from [packagename]/releases, one +of two things seems bound to happen: + +a) There is no [packagename]/releases under the branch, and the +changelog gets messed up (all commits since initial package import in a +single release entry), or + +b) One tries to keep [packagename]/releases to preserve sane changelog +when branching, but this will fail as this SVN command is invalid, as +one can't copy a directory into itself: +svn cp /packages/cauldron/[packagename] +/packages/cauldron/[packagename]/branches/[branchname] + +Or maybe I'm missing something? + +-- +Anssi Hannula +</PRE> + + +<!--endarticle--> + <HR> + <P><UL> + <!--threads--> + <LI>Previous message: <A HREF="002372.html">[Mageia-dev] packages branches and revision numbers when submiting packages with mgarepo +</A></li> + <LI>Next message: <A HREF="002374.html">[Mageia-dev] packages branches and revision numbers when submiting packages with mgarepo +</A></li> + <LI> <B>Messages sorted by:</B> + <a href="date.html#2373">[ date ]</a> + <a href="thread.html#2373">[ thread ]</a> + <a href="subject.html#2373">[ subject ]</a> + <a href="author.html#2373">[ author ]</a> + </LI> + </UL> + +<hr> +<a href="https://www.mageia.org/mailman/listinfo/mageia-dev">More information about the Mageia-dev +mailing list</a><br> +</body></html> |