Benjamin Reed wrote: > > Blair Zajac wrote: > > > This lead me to think of a way of leveraging the 10.2 *.info files > > for the 10.2-gcc3 tree. > > > > Given that there's now an rsync backend to downloading *.info files, > > we could make use of symlinks to link most of the 10.2 files to the > > 10.2-gcc3 tree and have files in 10.2-gcc3 for those specific packages > > that need special treatment for gcc 3.3. This could be scripted to > > create the symlinks, and look in the *.info files to see if there's > > any mention of 3.1 or 3.3 to get an idea of what to do. > > The info files are still developed using, and stored in, cvs, so we > can't really do symlinks. rsync is great for end-users, but for package > developers CVS is still king, and would never be replaced, except maybe > with another SCM.
Yes, unfortunately, I don't know of any SCMs that supports symlinks for files. Subversion does support "symlinks" for directories, so we could put each .info file into its own directory and then share that directory between trees. Best, Blair -- Blair Zajac <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Plots of your system's performance - http://www.orcaware.com/orca/ ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by: SF.net Giveback Program. SourceForge.net hosts over 70,000 Open Source Projects. See the people who have HELPED US provide better services: Click here: http://sourceforge.net/supporters.php _______________________________________________ Fink-devel mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/fink-devel
