[arch-dev-public] The move to SVN

[Eric Belanger]

On Wed, 9 Apr 2008, Travis Willard wrote:

> On Wed, Apr 9, 2008 at 2:09 PM, Eric Belanger
> <belanger at astro.umontreal.ca> wrote:
>> On Tue, 8 Apr 2008, Aaron Griffin wrote:
>>
>>
>>> On Tue, Apr 8, 2008 at 12:10 PM, Eric Belanger
>>> <belanger at astro.umontreal.ca> wrote:
>>>
>>>>  Things I would like to know how to do with the new SVN repo:
>>>>  - how to checkout the whole repo and how to update it afterwards
>>>>
>>>
>>> I just want to say that this is not really recommended. The size on
>>> disk is huge (SVN keeps a copy of the HEAD revision in the .svn/
>>> directory, so the overall size of the checkout is double that of the
>>> actual files). Feel free to do it, but I know I won't be doing it.
>>>
>>> Not to mention that fact that one individual package has copies in the
>>> repos/ dir too. A package in extra and testing for both architectures
>>> has 5 copies of the tracked files (and 5 more for the svn HEAD
>>> revisions). So that's a totaly of 10 PKGBUILDs and other files for one
>>> package. We have 2500ish last I checked.
>>>
>>
>>  Thanks for the explanation.  I wasn't aware that it had that much
>>  overhead. I'll probably just checkout what I need with archco.
>>
>>  One more thing: with cvs we had to export the CVSROOT variable on our
>>  local machine. Is a similar step required with the new svn setup or is
>>  everything taken care in archco? I'm not at my Arch machine right now so I
>>  can't check it.
>>
>
> Everything is taken care of in archco - I ran it on a couple of my
> packages last night and it worked fine
>
>
>

Another question: How do we add packages to the repo? I need to moved a 
couple packages from unsupported to extra (new depends for gimp-devel).

Thanks.

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