[Mageia-dev] removing packages from svn

Fri Mar 18 17:30:08 CET 2011

Op vrijdag 18 maart 2011 17:22:12 schreef nicolas vigier:
+> 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 ?
+
+i never used the remove yet, but i'm not adverse to an mgarepo command that 
+removes package from svn.
+
+if it moves it to an archived tree, instead of being really deleted, i have no 
+objection to that either, pending approval from -sysadmin about size 
+requirements.
+