[arch-dev-public] The move to SVN

[Travis Willard]

On Mon, Apr 14, 2008 at 10:59 AM, Aaron Griffin <aaronmgriffin at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Mon, Apr 14, 2008 at 1:17 AM, Eric Belanger
>
> <belanger at astro.umontreal.ca> wrote:
>
> >  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).
>
>  Hrm, good question 8)
>
>  You could checkout the full repo... but Jason had a good idea that we
>  might want to integrate into archco:
>
>    svn checkout -N svn+ssh://archlinux.org/home/svn-packages/
>
>  The -N makes it non-recursive... so you don't get any directories...
>  from there you can actually just do something like:
>
>    cd svn-packages
>    svn checkout xine-lib
>
>  This might be a little better than using archco, and lets us do lots more.
>
>  >From here you should be able to just "svn add" anything.
>
>  Opinions?

Hm - that's a neat idea.  Then adding totally-new packages becomes easy.