[gentoo-user] portage and rsync vs svn

2006-06-19 Thread Trenton Adams
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

Re: [gentoo-user] portage and rsync vs svn

2006-06-19 Thread Bo Ørsted Andresen
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

Re: [gentoo-user] portage and rsync vs svn

2006-06-19 Thread Trenton Adams
Thanks for the reply. Interspersed comments below... On 6/19/06, Bo Ørsted Andresen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: 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

Re: [gentoo-user] portage and rsync vs svn

2006-06-19 Thread Bo Ørsted Andresen
On Monday 19 June 2006 10:58, Trenton Adams wrote: 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

Re: [gentoo-user] portage and rsync vs svn

2006-06-19 Thread Trenton Adams
On 6/19/06, Bo Ørsted Andresen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Monday 19 June 2006 10:58, Trenton Adams wrote: 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.

Re: [gentoo-user] portage and rsync vs svn

2006-06-19 Thread Bo Ørsted Andresen
On Monday 19 June 2006 22:15, Trenton Adams wrote: For example, with openldap, you're supposed to slapcat before upgrading, and slapadd after upgrading, or you could have database problems.  I did not know this.  So when I went from 2.2-2.3, I had problems.  But, I didn't have time to get it

Re: [gentoo-user] portage and rsync vs svn

2006-06-19 Thread Teresa and Dale
Bo Ørsted Andresen wrote: On Monday 19 June 2006 22:15, Trenton Adams wrote: For example, with openldap, you're supposed to slapcat before upgrading, and slapadd after upgrading, or you could have database problems. I did not know this. So when I went from 2.2-2.3, I had problems. But, I