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On 08/29/05 Brian Harring wrote: |
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> On Fri, Sep 02, 2005 at 08:17:39AM +0200, Marius Mauch wrote: |
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> > Don't mind moving them, BUT |
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> > - metadata is a stupid location for them for several reasons |
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> being? |
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> metadata already holds global repository information, time of |
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> repositories generation, pregenerated cache, glsa set... |
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> It holds global metadata for the repository. |
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a) doesn't exist in CVS |
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b) is generally associated with "populated by cvs->rsync" |
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c) becomes just another dumping ground (it should only hold the cache |
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IMO) |
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d) This isn't "metadata" at all |
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Name it "misc" or "global" or some other non-existing-dir. |
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Marius |
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