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On Tue, Jun 28, 2005 at 03:35:01PM -0700, Donnie Berkholz wrote: |
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> I've been wondering lately with the discussion of yet more new |
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> categories, why don't we do repocopies to move packages? Note that I'm |
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> talking about packages switching categories and explicitly _not_ about |
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> package name changes. |
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Because client-side CVS sucks at dealing with this - and from it's |
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point of view, there is no difference between renaming and moving |
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packages - they are both just directory names. |
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After such a move of directories, CVS clients running their next update |
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would find NO record of the old directory when they attempted to update |
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it, and the CVS client would then NOT touch the local copy at all. |
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Eg: |
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1. sys-apps/foo exists on server |
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2. all clients are consistent with server. |
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3. sys-apps/foo is moved to sys-apps/bar. |
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3. client A tries to update. |
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3.1. sys-apps/bar is downloaded as it's new to the client. |
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3.2. sys-apps/foo on the client side is NOT removed, as the server |
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doesn't know about it (it would need an explicit deletion record on the |
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server). |
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4. client has sys-apps/foo until such time as it is manually deleted. |
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