[Mageia-sysadm] Packages SVN

[nicolas vigier]

On Wed, 03 Nov 2010, Olivier Blin wrote:

> Michael Scherer <misc at zarb.org> writes:
> 
> >> > For data ( icones, theme, images ), we can simply put them outside of
> >> > the svn, like we plan to do for tarballs. 
> >> 
> >> The plan is to put tarballs in an additional SVN, right?
> >> We still have to deal with that.
> >
> > I tought the plan was to place the tarball outside of a VCS, ie either
> > download it on demand, or placed in a cache. So we could simply remove
> > them from the cache when needed.
> >
> > Now, maybe I misunderstood the new system, so could you explain what it
> > will be ?
> 
> I didn't go much in details in the repsys doc boklm sent in the initial
> message of this thread, but IIRC, it mentionned having a SVN repo for
> SOURCES-bin

Yes, this version of repsys is still using SVN to store the binary
files, but on a separate SVN repository. It makes it possible to clean
history on this binary repository (for instance at each new release of
the distribution).