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From: "Paweł Hajdan
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] [RFC] gentoo-x86 migration to repo-per-package
Date: Mon, 08 Aug 2011 16:52:46
Message-Id: 4E401428.6060109@gentoo.org
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-dev] [RFC] gentoo-x86 migration to repo-per-package by "Andreas K. Huettel"
1 On 8/8/11 7:42 AM, Andreas K. Huettel wrote:
2 > Am Samstag 06 August 2011, 23:57:13 schrieb Fabio Erculiani:
3 >> I really love the idea of being able to atomically push updates
4 >> across multiple CPVs. This is also what KDE, GNOME, and many other
5 >> teams are waiting for. Having multiple repos means no atomicity and
6 >> at this point, I would rather prefer CVS (omg!).
7 >
8 > Exactly. This is why I would also vote for a single tree and single
9 > modern vcs.
10
11 +1 here. I'm curious what problems multiple repos would be solving, or
12 is it just "it's cool and Fedora/other distros does it" ?
13
14 > In addition, I would like to propose that we keep the number of
15 > required "home-made addons and scripts" to a minimum. As long as we
16 > have straight cvs or straight git, every tool developed for these
17 > systems just works. As soon as we start assembling our tree with a
18 > huge self-made infrastructure, we're all confined to our own tools
19 > for every operation that steps over the newly created repository
20 > limits.
21
22 +1 here too. Vanilla git + repoman is cool. If we have a wrapper on top
23 of that that assembles the rsync tree it starts to be much more complex,
24 even more than our current CVS it seems.

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