[Mageia-dev] mgarepo, svn and working from external debian server

Fri Jun 22 11:08:32 CEST 2012

'Twas brillig, and Johnny A. Solbu at 22/06/12 04:03 did gyre and gimble:
+> As someone who have a limited uplink bandwith and originally planed
+> to work on a package which have almost a gigabyte of sources, I
+> thought that maybe I can circumvent this by using my external Debian
+> server to upload the huge sources, so as to avoid using a hole day of
+> uploading using mgarepo.
+> 
+> so I checked out the package on Debian using svn co, but the sources
+> wasn't checked out.
+> 
+> So how do I use svn on Debian (and not on Mageia/Mandriva) to
+> checkout and checkin the SOURCES, and not just the sha1, and the
+> specfile?
+
+You can use wget to download the sources (can't remember the URL but the
+path is just the sha1 and I think it's sometimes displayed when updating
+a package), but I think you need to have ssh to upload new sources (I'm
+not 100% sure how the upload works tho', so it
+could be some other mechanism).
+
+Either way is there any specific reason you can't just use mgarepo on
+your debian box?
+
+It'll make keeping the sha1 file and the upload itself in sync a bit
+easier so I'd try and make it work if I were you.
+
+Col.
+
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