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

[Evangelos Foutras]

Flavio Costa wrote:
> On Tue, Oct 27, 2009 at 4:13 AM, Eric Bélanger <snowmaniscool at gmail.com>wrote:
>
>   
>> 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.)
>>>
>>>       
>
> What about SVN autoprops, can't you just attach a "pre-made"
> '~/.subversion/config' in the wiki and people can grab it from there.

That's one nifty feature. Thanks for mentioning it.