'Twas brillig, and Christiaan Welvaart at 12/01/13 16:14 did gyre and gimble: > On Sat, 12 Jan 2013, Colin Guthrie wrote: > >> As mentioned previously it's likely far better these days to NOT import >> whole packages from other distros. > > I don't see any reason for "importing" a package that is already in svn. > Any merging should be done in a svn checkout and then committed > normally. SRPM importing is useful for importing new packages.
That's more or less what I was saying unless I've missed something? Or are you just arguing semantics over "import" vs. "replace whole spec"? Cheers Col -- Colin Guthrie colin(at)mageia.org http://colin.guthr.ie/ Day Job: Tribalogic Limited http://www.tribalogic.net/ Open Source: Mageia Contributor http://www.mageia.org/ PulseAudio Hacker http://www.pulseaudio.org/ Trac Hacker http://trac.edgewall.org/
