[Mageia-sysadm] Packages SVN

[Michael Scherer]

Le mardi 02 novembre 2010 à 11:04 +0100, Olivier Blin a écrit :
> Thierry Vignaud <thierry.vignaud at gmail.com> writes:
> 
> > On 1 November 2010 16:25, nicolas vigier <boklm at mars-attacks.org> wrote:
> >> We lose all svn history, but it allows us to have a much smaller
> >> repository (without all the tarballs history), and we can keep a
> >> readonly copy of Mandriva repository somewhere for reference.
> >>
> >> What do you think ?
> >
> > Loosing history makes me cry.
> > Couldn't we try to script sg that removes the big objects from SVN
> > while exporting/reimporting it?
> 
> IIRC, there was such a script being worked on at Mandriva, bogdano or
> spuk would know.

I am pretty sure that Thierry can write one for us :)

> About losing history, maybe it's something we will have to go through,
> not to risk importing copyrighted/trademarked material.

What would be trademarked in the svn log ?

And more ever, what would be trademarked that we could not remove once
we found out ?


One reason to keep history is that it contains the name of those who
worked on the spec, and thus may be required as they have a part of the
copyright on the spec files. And therefor, dropping this information may
actually be illegal. 


-- 
Michael Scherer