Re: [gentoo-dev] IMPORTANT: Change to CVSROOT variable for cvs.gentoo.org

[Marius Mauch]

On 06/01/04  Kurt Lieber wrote:

> On Tue, Jun 01, 2004 at 09:32:06PM -0400 or thereabouts, Donnie
> Berkholz wrote:
> > You certainly need to change them when the repository moves, which
> > is effectively what this is. How else do you think it'll know where
> > the files are?
>
> OK -- we can handle that server-side on Monday.  cvs will be
> inaccessible for about an hour or so while we sed our way ~30k files.
> I'm still not sure how or if that will affect folks on the client
> side.
>
> Some folks have already suggested simply re-checking out the
> repository from scratch.  I'd really rather folks not do this as we
> already have enough of a load on cvs.gentoo.org as it is. 200 devs
> checking out a fresh copy of the tree isn't going to help.
>
> I'll work on getting some sed statements whipped up that folks can run
> on their local repositories overnight to make the necssary changes.
> (or, if you're a sed guru, feel free to post them here as well)
>
> BTW, is it safe to assume the cvs header that needs to change is
> always the third line in an ebuild?  random spot checks seem to
> suggest it is.

The headers in the ebuilds have to be changed, but should be changed
with repoman on the next commit as the Manifest would be incorrect
otherwise.

Also for updating your CVSROOT when you don't use the env variable, I
used this little pipe in the past:

find -name Root -type f|grep CVS|xargs sed -i "s:$OLDROOT:$NEWROOT:"

No guarantees though.

Marius

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