[arch-dev-public] The move to SVN

[Dan McGee]

On Thu, Apr 17, 2008 at 8:29 PM, Eric Belanger
<belanger at astro.umontreal.ca> wrote:
>
> On Mon, 14 Apr 2008, Aaron Griffin 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?
> >
> >
>
>  Do I need to also add the trunk and repo directories or will they be
> created automatically? For example, I want to add babl to extra, so I do:
>
>
>  svn checkout -N svn+ssh://archlinux.org/home/svn-packages/
>  cd svn-packages
>  svn add babl
>
>  Is that all or does it needs other steps? I just want to make sure I get it
> right before going ahead.

You'll need to put your stuff in the trunk directory, but from there
running the tools should make the proper moves to the repo-arch dirs.

-Dan