On Monday 19 June 2006 09:58, Trenton Adams wrote: > Hi guys, > > I'm just curious about something. I've noticed many people report > problems with their repository syncing simply because someone was in > the middle of committing to the repository. Couldn't this be resolved > by replacing the syncing mechanism with *svn* as opposed to rsync? > After all, it does have atomic transactions, and you cannot get a > partially updated repository when you use it.
Perhaps it could. But I don't think that problem is important enough to make Portage usage depend on Subversion. [...] > One other benefit of this mechanism, that I can think of, would be > that I could easily roll back to my last sync date or release, if some > of the updated ebuilds caused me problems. That really should not be necessary. What you should of course do is file a bug so the problems can be fixed for everyone. > Any thoughts? Currently the developers are still using CVS for the tree. Migrating to another VCS does have a high priority but they have not even chosen which VCS to migrate to. There is a Google Summer of Code project which is supposed to test the different options to give a good basis for making a decision. This, however, affects the Gentoo developers only. -- Bo Andresen
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