[gentoo-dev] The deal with epkgmove

2005-12-10 Thread Ian Leitch
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.

Re: [gentoo-dev] The deal with epkgmove

2005-12-10 Thread Kurt Lieber
On Sat, Dec 10, 2005 at 11:52:33AM + or thereabouts, Ian Leitch wrote: For the time being and near future, I think moves should be done by hand. What are your thoughts on this, infra? As for moving packages by hand vs. using a tool, that's not really infra's call. If you were asking

Re: [gentoo-dev] The deal with epkgmove

2005-12-10 Thread Caleb Tennis
As for moving packages by hand vs. using a tool, that's not really infra's call. If you were asking about CVS vs. SVN, I have been and remain opposed to using SVN for gentoo-x86 until someone can offer a whole lot of assurances around SVN's ability to manage a repo of our size. (1.3GB,

Re: [gentoo-dev] The deal with epkgmove

2005-12-10 Thread Caleb Tennis
As for moving packages by hand vs. using a tool, that's not really infra's call. If you were asking about CVS vs. SVN, I have been and remain opposed to using SVN for gentoo-x86 until someone can offer a whole lot of assurances around SVN's ability to manage a repo of our size. (1.3GB,

Re: [gentoo-dev] The deal with epkgmove

2005-12-10 Thread Benoit Boissinot
On 12/10/05, Luca Barbato [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Kurt Lieber wrote: CVS may not be the new, shiny kid on the block, but it's been very stable, presented few problems and, in general, has served us well over the past 5+ years. Folks tend to point at the fancy bells and whistles that

Re: [gentoo-dev] The deal with epkgmove

2005-12-10 Thread Jason Stubbs
On Sunday 11 December 2005 00:56, Luca Barbato wrote: svn so far was good but I don't know which big projects had it deployed. KDE uses subversion, depending on what you call big of course. -- Jason Stubbs -- gentoo-dev@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-dev] The deal with epkgmove

2005-12-10 Thread Dan Meltzer
Gcc has also moved to subversion... On 12/10/05, Jason Stubbs [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sunday 11 December 2005 00:56, Luca Barbato wrote: svn so far was good but I don't know which big projects had it deployed. KDE uses subversion, depending on what you call big of course. -- Jason

Re: [gentoo-dev] The deal with epkgmove

2005-12-10 Thread Ciaran McCreesh
On Sat, 10 Dec 2005 16:56:55 +0100 Luca Barbato [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: | I'd suggest having a look at git or mercurial, they are tested on a | quite big workload and they seems good enough for the task. Workload isn't the issue. It's number of files. -- Ciaran McCreesh : Gentoo Developer (I

Re: [gentoo-dev] The deal with epkgmove

2005-12-10 Thread Fernando J. Pereda
On Sat, Dec 10, 2005 at 05:29:09PM +, Ciaran McCreesh wrote: | On Sat, 10 Dec 2005 16:56:55 +0100 Luca Barbato [EMAIL PROTECTED] | wrote: | | I'd suggest having a look at git or mercurial, they are tested on a | | quite big workload and they seems good enough for the task. | | Workload isn't