Peter Eisentraut wrote: > Package: svn-buildpackage > Version: 0.6.18 > Severity: normal > > It seems that using svn-buildpackage --svn-export requires the build > dependencies to be satisfied. I don't think that makes sense.
I agree.
Actually, this dependency issue is not singular to export. It is (was?) needed
for tag operations.
I think the whole check for features/needs could be redesigned so that a check
can be done at the begining, but is taken
into account only when needed.
The way I think it could be done is to not fail on the initial checks, but to
cache the results for the different checks
that are done and only when a requirement needs to be fulfilled do a check on
the cached result and fail then.
Since code sometimes speaks better, here is some pseudocode:
svnbpinit:
cachedepssatisfied
cachetrunkurldefined
cachetagsurldefined
cacheorigdirexists
....
svnbptag:
checknopending or die "pending modifications"
checktagsurldefined or die "tags url not defined"
dotagstuff
svnbpexport:
if checkusesmerge
checkorigdirdefined or die "merge is used, but no orig dir"
Comments are welcome
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Regards,
EddyP
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