On Wed, Jul 12, 2006 at 02:22:37PM +0100, Justin B Rye wrote: > Enrico Zini wrote: > > svn co svn://svn.debian.org/debtags/tagdb/tags > [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ svn co svn://svn.debian.org/debtags/tagdb/tags > svn: URL 'svn://svn.debian.org/debtags/tagdb/tags' refers to a file, > not a directory > There's probably some obvious fix, for those familiar with svn... > but not being such a person I doubt I would get much out of it.
My mistake. From where I am now I have to write mail offline, and I can't double check what I say. Sorry about it, I hope you don't mind if it takes a couple iterations to converge to a good solution. This should work: svn cat svn://svn.debian.org/debtags/tagdb/tags > tags or: svn co svn://svn.debian.org/debtags/tagdb > > or using "tags apt://" as the only debtags source in > > /etc/debtags/sources.list > Ah, right, thanks, that sounds useful. Um, except that: > [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ sudoedit /etc/debtags/sources.list > [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ sudo debtags update > E: The method driver /usr/lib/apt/methods/apt could not be found. > E: The method driver /usr/lib/apt/methods/apt could not be found. > debtags: ConsistencyCheckException: Acquirer failed Sounds like an older version of debtags which doesn't understand the apt:// tag source. Is you debtags version >= 1.5.4 ? That is the version where apt:// has been added. > >> And is there a way of seeing what has changed in the tags list, > >> other than stashing private backups and diffing? > > You can checkout old versions from the database and tagcoll diff. > I expect you can, but I'm best off sticking with what I've got. Could you describe me what is the method that you've got? In designing newer ways of doing things, I wouldn't want to make people's life harder. Ciao, Enrico -- GPG key: 1024D/797EBFAB 2000-12-05 Enrico Zini <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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