Re: [leaf-devel] Glitch in initrd backup when using alternative initrdfile

2006-05-05 Thread Martin Hejl
Hi Charles, > You don't understand how subversion works. I never claimed otherwise ;-) > It's like a file-system and > making a tag or branch is like copying a directory. Everything > underneath is copied too. Well, to me, the way things are stored in the backend are pretty much meaningless (l

Re: [leaf-devel] Glitch in initrd backup when using alternative initrdfile

2006-05-05 Thread Charles Steinkuehler
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Martin Hejl wrote: > Hi Charles, > >> This might be one benefit to subversion. > It might be (I don't know, I've not used subversion so far). But the > problem I see for buildtool is not so much that it's too hard to fetch a > file for a specific bran

Re: [leaf-devel] Glitch in initrd backup when using alternative initrdfile

2006-05-05 Thread Martin Hejl
Hi Charles, > This might be one benefit to subversion. It might be (I don't know, I've not used subversion so far). But the problem I see for buildtool is not so much that it's too hard to fetch a file for a specific branch, but rather that buildtool currently isn't fetching anything other than HE

Re: [leaf-devel] Glitch in initrd backup when using alternative initrdfile

2006-05-05 Thread Charles Steinkuehler
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Martin Hejl wrote: > Eric Spakman wrote: >> There currently aren't any release tags unfortuanatly. But everything in >> CVS is exactly 2.4.1, so if you build buildenv you would have version >> 2.4.1. > Just to clarify - the main reason that there relea

Re: [leaf-devel] Glitch in initrd backup when using alternative initrdfile

2006-05-05 Thread Erich Titl
Martin Hejl wrote: > Hi Erich, > > >>Thanks for the clarification. The release tags would not hurt though. > > Sure. > > >>>When making a checkout from CVS, remember to use a SF developer account >>>- synching between the "real" CVS server and the backup server (which is >>>used for anonymous

Re: [leaf-devel] Glitch in initrd backup when using alternative initrdfile

2006-05-05 Thread Martin Hejl
Hi Erich, > Thanks for the clarification. The release tags would not hurt though. Sure. >> When making a checkout from CVS, remember to use a SF developer account >> - synching between the "real" CVS server and the backup server (which is >> used for anonymous access) still doesn't seem to work (

Re: [leaf-devel] Glitch in initrd backup when using alternative initrdfile

2006-05-05 Thread Erich Titl
Martin Martin Hejl wrote: > Eric Spakman wrote: > >>There currently aren't any release tags unfortuanatly. But everything in >>CVS is exactly 2.4.1, so if you build buildenv you would have version >>2.4.1. > > Just to clarify - the main reason that there releases aren't tagged in > CVS was not s

Re: [leaf-devel] Glitch in initrd backup when using alternative initrdfile

2006-05-05 Thread Martin Hejl
Eric Spakman wrote: > There currently aren't any release tags unfortuanatly. But everything in > CVS is exactly 2.4.1, so if you build buildenv you would have version > 2.4.1. Just to clarify - the main reason that there releases aren't tagged in CVS was not simply because of oversight, but becaus

Re: [leaf-devel] Glitch in initrd backup when using alternative initrdfile

2006-05-05 Thread Eric Spakman
Hello Erich, >> That's what I meant ;-) >> If that option is removed, the initrd can also made smaller, because >> the code needed to backup (mkfs.minix) can be removed. > > I believe this would be the best solution. I have no problem custom > tailoring my initrd, but for the average user it might

Re: [leaf-devel] Glitch in initrd backup when using alternative initrdfile

2006-05-05 Thread Erich Titl
Hi Eric Eric Spakman wrote: > Hi Erich, > > >>>The question is, how useful is it to backup initrd? Life could be >>>made very easy when the option to backup initrd is removed. There are >>>different initrd packages which makes booting of of most systems >>>possible (floppy, usb, cdrom and hd)

Re: [leaf-devel] Glitch in initrd backup when using alternative initrdfile

2006-05-05 Thread Eric Spakman
Hi Erich, >> The question is, how useful is it to backup initrd? Life could be >> made very easy when the option to backup initrd is removed. There are >> different initrd packages which makes booting of of most systems >> possible (floppy, usb, cdrom and hd) and if anything is missing a new >