[Mageia-dev] sync with mandriva

[Bruno Cornec]

Pascal Terjan said on Fri, Nov 19, 2010 at 04:10:30PM +0000:

> On Thu, Nov 18, 2010 at 18:11, Maarten Vanraes
> <maarten.vanraes at gmail.com> wrote:
> > if people keep in mind that sometimes tarballs aren't always fetchable from
> > the internetz; then i'm ok with this. also, possibly if the tar is the same as
> > the previous version/revision, it could even be fetched from the older
> > packages/releases
> 
> Removing it from svn does not mean no longer hosting it, but svn is
> not appropriate to keep history of all versions of tarball that have
> once existed in cooker

That was exactly my original point.

> One solution can be for example
> - Storing the tarballs matching svn head on a ftp if the src.rpm is
> not yet available
> - Having the tool that checkouts from svn to also download src.rpm and
> extract tarball from there, looking on the ftp if there is not yet a
> src.rpm for that version

Yes, that's one approach indeed. 
What is needed IMHO is:
for a maintainer to have the tgz (from a flat repo, ftp/http/smb/...) 
+patches in VCS (SVN, Git, ...) + SPEC in VCS (SVN, Git, ...).
mdvsys would just push what is in VCS.
The BS should also have the same pointer to the same tgz (checksum
verified to be sure e.g. - and kept somewhere for history, compliance,
...reasons)) and to the SVN content.

Bruno.
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