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   <H1>[Mageia-dev] sync with mandriva</H1>
    <B>Remy CLOUARD</B> 
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    <I>Sun Nov  7 13:53:30 CET 2010</I>
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<PRE>On Sun, Nov 07, 2010 at 08:18:30AM +0200, P. Christeas wrote:
&gt;<i> On Sunday 07 November 2010, Luis Daniel Lucio Quiroz wrote:
</I>&gt;<i> &gt; Well,
</I>&gt;<i> &gt; 
</I>&gt;<i> &gt; as in mandriva list it seems that live will be again.  I was wondering for
</I>&gt;<i> &gt; those we contrib in both distros.  I mean for example me: i maintan squid
</I>&gt;<i> &gt; and snort (for example).  I wonder if there is a way so i may affect
</I>&gt;<i> &gt; package once and build in both distros (because these packages for example
</I>&gt;<i> &gt; wont change, i mean patches and compiled options will be the same).
</I>&gt;<i> Given that your squid could be built from /exactly/ the same package+tarballs 
</I>&gt;<i> in both Mandriva and Mageia[1], you could theoretically rsync between your 2 
</I>&gt;<i> local svn checkouts and then checkin.. But not the most beautiful procedure.
</I>&gt;<i> 
</I>&gt;<i> BUT, if it had been for git-based package tracking:
</I>&gt;<i> ..  you would have 2 branches at the same git repo, for Mandriva, Mageia. And 
</I>&gt;<i> one, third, for the official upstream sources, actually.  You would be able to 
</I>&gt;<i> hack one branch and let squid build, install etc. Then, you would /merge/ from 
</I>&gt;<i> one distro branch to the other, or cherry-pick, or rebase, or anything 
</I>&gt;<i> suitable for your changes. No need to have identical code in both of branches, 
</I>&gt;<i> at all.
</I>&gt;<i> And then simply push to Mageia, Mandriva, Fedora, SuSe, Debian, the upstream 
</I>&gt;<i> squid etc, the N-th mirror of Mageia and so on...
</I>&gt;<i> Moreover, if somebody else had hacked squid for Mandriva, you would be able to 
</I>&gt;<i> fetch his/her changes, merge the ones you wanted into Mageia, and repeat the 
</I>&gt;<i> &quot;push&quot; step.
</I>&gt;<i> You see, having multiple masters, multiple committers is what git is unique 
</I>&gt;<i> at. It is where svn sucks, by contrast.
</I>&gt;<i> 
</I>it could be possible as well with git-svn no ?

I don&#8217;t think mandriva will move to git anytime soon, it was planned
(IIRC spuk worked on it) but it was not finished.

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