Subject: Re: pkgsrc reorg proposal II
To: None <hubert@feyrer.de>
From: David Brownlee <abs@netbsd.org>
List: tech-pkg
Date: 01/03/2001 09:54:15
Looks good. I'd still prefer all the patches to be put
together in one patch file - I'm more than willing to write
any tools to automatically split/rejoin/etc.
I'd be tempted to keep a single subdir for the less predictibly
named files (scripts/files). Most packages do not have them, and
can have the directory omitted.
Any milage in merging the two *-sum files?
David/absolute -- www.netbsd.org: No hype required --
On Wed, 3 Jan 2001 hubert@feyrer.de wrote:
>
> 0. Initial proposal:
> http://mail-index.netbsd.org/tech-pkg/2000/10/05/0011.html
>
>
> 1. Refined proposal:
>
> old filename new filename variable
>
> patches/patch-* -> patch-* PATCHDIR
> files/md5 -> dist-sum MD5_FILE
> files/patch-sum -> patch-sum PATCH_SUM_FILE
> pkg/PLIST* -> plist* PLIST_SRC
> pkg/COMMENT -> comment COMMENT
> pkg/DESCR -> descr DESCR_SRC
> pkg/INSTALL -> install INSTALL_FILE
> pkg/DEINSTALL -> deinstall DEINSTALL_FILE
> pkg/MESSAGE -> message MESSAGE_FILE
> scripts/* -> * SCRIPTDIR
> files/* -> * [1] -
>
> [1] Where possible - there are a number of pkgs that have a files/Makefile
> or similar. Must be renamed to prevent clash.
>
>
> 2. Procedure:
>
> The idea is to drop what's not needed of the current repository, and
> start a new one. We have two ways here:
>
> a) Checkout, reorg, import our ~1800 pkgs.
> This approach will also drop all revision history.
>
> b) Copy over all the ,v files (that are not in Attic) into a new
> repository, then reorg there. This approach will keep revision
> history of the files that are not deleted, but still speed up
> "cvs update" later as there are no Attic directories that are
> first created and then removed again immediately.
>
> My preference here is b).
>
>
> Comments?
>
>
> - Hubert
>
>