Re: ocaml 3.07 packages.
On Mon, Jul 07, 2003 at 10:26:23PM +0200, Ralf Treinen wrote:
> On Mon, Jul 07, 2003 at 10:04:38PM +0200, Sven Luther wrote:
>
> > Ok, let me recapitulate, we have decided to store the .orig.tar.gz
> > tarball, and put the debian directory in the SVN repository ? If there
> > is a new upstream release, there is a new .orig.tar.gz ? Why not put the
> > whole upstream tarball in uncompressed form in SVN then ? It would spare
> > space in the long time.
>
> I think the argument was that we have no easy way to detect when
> files should be removed from the repository. Maybe Branden will
> tell us in Oslo how to do this (he will talk about managing
> debian packages by subversion) :-)
>
> Anyway, space it is not really a limitation for now. The ocaml
> source tree is big, OK, but how many ocaml releases are there
> per year?
One, two if they botched the first one. The real problem is if we are
going to add CVS snapshots, like i am doing currently.
> > Also, how do we make the link between a given .orig.tar.gz and its
> > corresponding debian directory ? Do we use release tags or something
> > such in the branches ?
>
> The top entry in the changelog gives the name of the orig.tar.gz.
> Remember that in svn version numbers apply to the complete repository,
> not to single files as in cvs.
Mmm,
> I find the opkg-buildpackage script that I posted some days earlier
> to this list useful.
Ok, i will look at it again.
Friendly,
Sven Luther
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