[aur-general] SVN help

[Brad Fanella]

On Sun, Sep 12, 2010 at 10:20:17PM +0300, Ionuț Bîru wrote:
> On 09/12/2010 09:58 PM, Brad Fanella wrote:
> >Grr...svn makes me mad.
> >
> >svn-packages/. % svn commit                                                    brad at Xenon on svn svn-packages:26045
> >Log message unchanged or not specified
> >(a)bort, (c)ontinue, (e)dit:
> >c
> >Adding         binutils-avr
> >Adding         binutils-avr/trunk
> >Adding         binutils-avr/trunk/PKGBUILD
> >Adding         binutils-avr/trunk/avr-size.patch
> >Transmitting file data ..svn: Commit failed (details follow):
> >svn: File already exists: filesystem '/srv/svn-packages/db', transaction '26045-kb8', path '/binutils-avr'
> >
> >Does anyone have any idea how to solve something like this. I've been searching around for a while and I hope I didn't screw something up on the server! This has never happened with any other package.
> >
> >Thanks,
> >Brad
> >
> 
> i don't understand why you had to add the whole package structure.
> binutils-avr was in community already.
> 
> here is what you have to do.
> 
> cd /some/dir
> communityco binutils-avr
> cd binutils-avr/trunk
> 
> do your things, compile the packages
> 
> svn add avr-size.patch
> communitypkg "fixing somethings"
> 
> that's all
> 
> -- 
> Ionuț

That seemed to work! :-)

I just must have developed a bad habit of doing that for some reason. In any case, I now know the correct was to *update* a package in the future.

Thanks,
Brad