Re: [gentoo-dev] Using cvs as your portage directory

[Paul de Vrieze]

On Tuesday 23 March 2004 23:25, Joel Martin wrote:
> With the new developers today, I was inspired to finish this up and post
> it. I have posted some notes (raw) for the process that I used to
> transition from my rsynced portage dir, to my cvs portage tree:
> http://dev.gentoo.org/~kanaka/dev_start.html
>
> I searched for this info in docs but didn't find anything. I don't know
> if this is the sanctioned method for doing things, but it has worked
> well for me in the past couple of weeks. If people think it is a good
> idea, perhaps it could be added to one of these docs:
> http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/cvs-tutorial.xml
> http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/policy.xml
>
> Thoughts anyone? Especially from you new devs?

I might want to state that I personally do not use cvs as my portage tree. I 
have several reasons for this that you might consider:
- It is allways an advantage to see what the user sees
- syncing up the whole tree is both slow and it puts an extra strain on
  cvs.gentoo.org
- It is very easy to accidentally commit temporary fixes you made in your life
  tree. (this was esp. true with regard to package.mask that now can be
  overridden without editing the life tree)

Personally I think the extra strain on cvs.gentoo.org and my patience is not 
necessary and I only update those parts of the cvs tree that I need to 
change.

Paul

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