On Mon, Jul 07, 2003 at 10:32:35PM +0200, Sven Luther wrote: > On Mon, Jul 07, 2003 at 10:26:23PM +0200, Ralf Treinen wrote: > > On Mon, Jul 07, 2003 at 10:04:38PM +0200, Sven Luther wrote: > > > > > Ok, let me recapitulate, we have decided to store the .orig.tar.gz > > > tarball, and put the debian directory in the SVN repository ? If there > > > is a new upstream release, there is a new .orig.tar.gz ? Why not put the > > > whole upstream tarball in uncompressed form in SVN then ? It would spare > > > space in the long time. > > > > I think the argument was that we have no easy way to detect when > > files should be removed from the repository. Maybe Branden will > > tell us in Oslo how to do this (he will talk about managing > > debian packages by subversion) :-) > > > > Anyway, space it is not really a limitation for now. The ocaml > > source tree is big, OK, but how many ocaml releases are there > > per year? > > One, two if they botched the first one. The real problem is if we are > going to add CVS snapshots, like i am doing currently. > > > > Also, how do we make the link between a given .orig.tar.gz and its > > > corresponding debian directory ? Do we use release tags or something > > > such in the branches ? > > > > The top entry in the changelog gives the name of the orig.tar.gz. > > Remember that in svn version numbers apply to the complete repository, > > not to single files as in cvs. > > Mmm, > > > I find the opkg-buildpackage script that I posted some days earlier > > to this list useful. > > Ok, i will look at it again. > > Friendly, > > Sven Luther > > Hello,
The mains problems with putting other thing than the .orig.tar.gz are : - if the upstream do something which are not SVN compatible ( symlink for example ). - if the maintainer modify and commit some files ( it is really hard in a big tree to discover that a particular files has been commited and that is not the upstream file, i have an experience and it was not very funny to discover, de-tag and re-tag ). Well, i am not god, so maybe what i said is silliy ( but i hope not ). >From my point of view, commiting .orig is the best way to be the most compatible with upstream tar... Regard Sylvain LE GALL
