[RFC] Repository layout change / Zmiana układu repo

[Jan Rekorajski]

On Mon, 14 May 2007, Mariusz Mazur wrote:

> Small easy steps is what I propose. Actually setting up a dual solution 
> (current structure + a 'packages' modules) should be quite trivial in CVS. 
> It's just a matter of running a script to generate the 'packages' module 
> server side with lots of links (whether soft or hard) and adding appropriate 

That's what I did, just the other way, files copied to packages/* and
symlinked to SPECS/ and SOURCES/. Easy to make the script do it the
other way.

> triggers for cvs rm/add operations (to generate/remove those links when 
> appropriate and bail out on conflicts).

That will not work? How will you tell which package file X added to SOURCES
belongs to? Some kind of lazy linking on spec commit?

> It's a few hours worth of work tops. Don't know about locking, but that should 
> also be doable.

The conversion takes approximately 7 hours on P4 2.8GHz and idle system.
 
> This way we'll be able to actually more or less test this, before making major 
> changes (like completely switching to svn, which btw probably wouldn't allow 
> something like this server side) and it'll be flexible. And who knows, maybe 
> after a couple of months we'll see people actually switching to this solution 
> on their own, thereby freeing us from having to support the old structure.
> 
> And even if not, we can always look for some scm with better merging and 
> branching, that would also allow this (which svn most likely does not). But 
> not sooner then in a few months.

That was my intent behind this RFC.
Do a non invasive change now, switch to more ordered repo and then look
for the best scm for it.
 
> Any takers? Baggins?

Converter is ready, what is missing is a script to handle cvs rm/add
operation, I can do a parser/symlinker but someone more experienced in
CVS internals will have to glue it into CVS. BTW. such a script will
require rpm-build package on the server.

Janek
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