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From: Chris Gianelloni <wolf31o2@g.o>
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] RFC: removal of digest files from the tree
Date: Mon, 28 Jan 2008 07:33:05
Message-Id: 1201505551.6479.84.camel@inertia.twi-31o2.org
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-dev] RFC: removal of digest files from the tree by "Robin H. Johnson"
1 On Sun, 2008-01-27 at 18:01 -0800, Robin H. Johnson wrote:
2 > On Sun, Jan 27, 2008 at 05:34:14PM -0800, Chris Gianelloni wrote:
3 > > On Sun, 2008-01-27 at 06:27 -0800, Robin H. Johnson wrote:
4 > > > Due to how CVS hooks operate, it's not quite possible.
5 > > > You wouldn't be able to block the entire commit, only the contents of
6 > > > the files/ directory would get totally blocked.
7 > > > If you were committing an ebuild along with a patch, this would be very
8 > > > bad, as the ebuild+Manifest would get committed, but the patch wouldn't.
9 > > Bleh... CVS vs. SVN. There's no "pre-commit" equivalent on CVS?
10 > There is pre-commit, but it's not recursive. It gets applied to only a
11 > single directory and in isolation from the other directories.
12
13 OK. So we could block on commits of digest-* files to files, right?
14 What else would we need?
15
16 > > Also, wouldn't the second Manifest run "fix" the missing digest commit?
17 > In what way? the problem I was concerned about was non-digest files
18 > not being committed leading to broken ebuilds.
19
20 Ahh, never mind... I was thinking of something else.
21
22 --
23 Chris Gianelloni
24 Release Engineering Strategic Lead
25 Games Developer

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Re: [gentoo-dev] RFC: removal of digest files from the tree Vlastimil Babka <caster@g.o>