[Mageia-sysadm] Packages SVN

Wed Nov 3 10:20:16 CET 2010

On Wed, 03 Nov 2010, Michael Scherer wrote:
+
+> Le mardi 02 novembre 2010 à 11:04 +0100, Olivier Blin a écrit :
+> > Thierry Vignaud <thierry.vignaud at gmail.com> writes:
+> > 
+> > > On 1 November 2010 16:25, nicolas vigier <boklm at mars-attacks.org> wrote:
+> > >> We lose all svn history, but it allows us to have a much smaller
+> > >> repository (without all the tarballs history), and we can keep a
+> > >> readonly copy of Mandriva repository somewhere for reference.
+> > >>
+> > >> What do you think ?
+> > >
+> > > Loosing history makes me cry.
+> > > Couldn't we try to script sg that removes the big objects from SVN
+> > > while exporting/reimporting it?
+> > 
+> > IIRC, there was such a script being worked on at Mandriva, bogdano or
+> > spuk would know.
+> 
+> I am pretty sure that Thierry can write one for us :)
+
+If it works well. But I'm not sure it is easy to do.
+
+> 
+> > About losing history, maybe it's something we will have to go through,
+> > not to risk importing copyrighted/trademarked material.
+> 
+> What would be trademarked in the svn log ?
+
+Mandriva logos for instance.
+
+> And more ever, what would be trademarked that we could not remove once
+> we found out ?
+> 
+> 
+> One reason to keep history is that it contains the name of those who
+> worked on the spec, and thus may be required as they have a part of the
+> copyright on the spec files. And therefor, dropping this information may
+> actually be illegal. 
+
+We would keep the rpm changelog at least.
+
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