[Mageia-sysadm] Packages SVN

[nicolas vigier]

On Wed, 03 Nov 2010, Olivier Blin wrote:

> nicolas vigier <boklm at mars-attacks.org> writes:
> 
> >> 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).
> 
> But we would still have the whole history in the cauldron branch, right?

We can also remove history on cauldron binary branch, although it will
require to stop new commits for a few minutes/hours, doing something like
this :
http://robmayhew.com/delete-parts-of-subversion-history/