[arch-general] svn:keywords is not set on newer packages

[Eric Bélanger]

On Tue, Oct 27, 2009 at 1:38 AM, Evangelos Foutras <foutrelis at gmail.com> wrote:
> Eric Bélanger wrote:
>>
>> On Mon, Oct 26, 2009 at 10:39 PM, Evangelos Foutras <foutrelis at gmail.com>
>> wrote:
>>
>>>
>>> Hello,
>>>
>>> The $Id$ keyword came up while talking with Angel and I realized that the
>>> svn:keywords property doesn't get set on PKGBUILD for new packages, and
>>> thus
>>> $Id$ doesn't get updated on commit. I believe we should fix this, as this
>>> information is useful when determining when a PKGBUILD was last modified
>>> and
>>> by whom.
>>>
>>> May I suggest we do the following:
>>>
>>> 1) Edit the "Adding a package" section [1] of the packaging instructions
>>> in
>>> the DeveloperWiki to include this step. (Adding `svn propset svn:keywords
>>> "Id" new-package/trunk/PKGBUILD' below the $EDITOR line perhaps?)
>>> 2) Add this property to all packages (this has been done once before by
>>> Aaron, if I remember correctly).
>>>
>>> What's your view on this?
>>>
>>> ----
>>> [1]
>>>
>>> http://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/DeveloperWiki:HOWTO_Be_A_Packager#Adding_a_package
>>>
>>>
>>
>> We should  do #1.  The Id tag should be set when a package is added to
>> the repo.  As for option #2, it has already been done.
>>
>
> Unless I'm missing something, it has only been done once, on 2008-04-18.
> Packages added after that point do not have the svn:keywords property set
> (e.g.: aufs2).

Yes, that's what I meant.  It was done once on the whole repos when it
was moved to svn.  Devs and TUs who adds packages need to run the svn
propset command to set the Id tag.

>
> (Thanks for amending the developer wiki, by the way.)
>