[Mageia-dev] sync with mandriva

Fri Nov 19 19:21:21 CET 2010

Pascal Terjan said on Fri, Nov 19, 2010 at 04:10:30PM +0000:
+
+> On Thu, Nov 18, 2010 at 18:11, Maarten Vanraes
+> <maarten.vanraes at gmail.com> wrote:
+> > if people keep in mind that sometimes tarballs aren't always fetchable from
+> > the internetz; then i'm ok with this. also, possibly if the tar is the same as
+> > the previous version/revision, it could even be fetched from the older
+> > packages/releases
+> 
+> Removing it from svn does not mean no longer hosting it, but svn is
+> not appropriate to keep history of all versions of tarball that have
+> once existed in cooker
+
+That was exactly my original point.
+
+> One solution can be for example
+> - Storing the tarballs matching svn head on a ftp if the src.rpm is
+> not yet available
+> - Having the tool that checkouts from svn to also download src.rpm and
+> extract tarball from there, looking on the ftp if there is not yet a
+> src.rpm for that version
+
+Yes, that's one approach indeed. 
+What is needed IMHO is:
+for a maintainer to have the tgz (from a flat repo, ftp/http/smb/...) 
++patches in VCS (SVN, Git, ...) + SPEC in VCS (SVN, Git, ...).
+mdvsys would just push what is in VCS.
+The BS should also have the same pointer to the same tgz (checksum
+verified to be sure e.g. - and kept somewhere for history, compliance,
+...reasons)) and to the SVN content.
+
+Bruno.
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