[gentoo-portage-dev] [PATCH] Repoman SVN support

[Fabian Groffen]

Hi all,

Please find attached the patch of the prefix repoman sources against the
current trunk.  I hope I removed all hunks that have prefix-only
changes.

The current diff is mainly SVN support for Repoman.  I extracted the SVN
diffs only.  Most of the original work was done by Kito, and recently I
wiped the dust off of it, and finalised it into some working version.
So far the good news, the bad news now regarding this patch: I had to
somehow hardcode the svn repo being used, as I didn't find a way to let
repoman figure out dynamically what the "offset" in the SVN repository
is where the portage tree starts.  This is kind of similar to how CVS
support is done, where this offset is also hardcoded.

While I think repoman's CVS support has always been used as-is --
nowadays people prefer to start non-CVS repos, the SVN support as in
this patch would, considering the many overlays in SVN around, surely
benefit from some sort of solution that allows to set the "repository
offset" or something, e.g. through a variable.  Thoughts?


-- 
Fabian Groffen
Gentoo on a different level