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

[Aaron Griffin]

On Tue, Oct 27, 2009 at 6:01 AM, Flavio Costa <flavio.cdc at gmail.com> 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.

I was going to suggest this too. I don't recall the syntax, though,
but we should be able to match PKGBUILD files and set autoprops for
that.

It's so lame that svn doesn't let you set properties like this at the
directory level...