For those who aren't devs; epkgmove is a tool to move and rename
packages around in CVS. It lives here: [1]
As it stands currently, epkgmove is likely to mess up the tree for
anything but simple package moves/renames with only a couple of minor
deps. The code is hideous, and needs a rewrite.
However, I don't think we should even be using such a tool. Package
moves are best done on the server where it can keep track of all
dependency and package references as they're committed. For epkgmove to
perform 100% accurate moves, it needs to do a full tree scan plus
reverse dep checking, which would make it too slow to be useful.
There are a handful of other non-trivial checks it has too perform.
SVN in combination with the mentioned server side caching would probably
be the best solution, though obviously CVS -> SVN transition for
gentoo-x86 is no minor task.
For the time being and near future, I think moves should be done by hand.
What are your thoughts on this, infra?
1: http://dev.gentoo.org/~port001/DevTools/epkgmove/
Regards,
Ian Leitch
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