Gentoo Archives: gentoo-dev

From: Ryan Phillips <rphillips@g.o>
To: Marius Mauch <genone@g.o>
Cc: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Gentoo: State of the Union
Date: Fri, 28 Apr 2006 22:50:26
Message-Id: 20060428224637.GB65374@watcher.kimaker.com
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-dev] Gentoo: State of the Union by Marius Mauch
1 Marius Mauch <genone@g.o> said:
2 > Grant Goodyear schrieb:
3 > >Some questions that need to be answered:
4 > >
5 > >* Can the repo be converted while maintaining the history?
6 > >* How long does a full checkout take?
7 > >* How much disk space does a full checkout require?
8 > >* Is there a viewcvs equivalent available?
9 > >* Others that I can't think of right now? (Please feel free to add.)
10 >
11 > Right now portage and repoman have no support for using anything but cvs
12 > or rsync for the tree, e.g. repoman commit wouldn't work. Not hard to
13 > fix, but something to keep in mind.
14
15 Rsync could still be used to deliver up-to-date tree's to people.
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17 Changing the process would of course require backend changes to our
18 utilities.
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20 The quesion is what is best for the job, and then implement it.
21
22 -Ryan