[csw-maintainers] Addition to pkginfo for repository path

Trygve Laugstøl trygvis at inamo.no
Wed Dec 3 21:28:58 CET 2008


Dagobert Michelsen wrote:
> Hi Phil,
> 
> Am 03.12.2008 um 18:10 schrieb Philip Brown:
>> On Wed, Dec 03, 2008 at 04:53:49PM +0100, Dagobert Michelsen wrote:
>>>> 1. modular gar, now makes it easy to automatically determine where
>>>>  in the tree a package comes from:
>>>>
>>>>  (csw/mgar/pkg/{softwarename})
>>> Partly. The location is
>>>   csw/mgar/pkg/(cpan/|xfce/)?(trunk|tags/<tag>|branches/<branch})
>> Hmmmm... Intersting about the branches stuff.
>> That would make sense to have that info in there then.
>> Although seems like the "cpan/xfce" xstuff needs to be ...erm, what  
>> is the
>> database term... "fully normalized"?  :-)
>> ie: no subdirs: we need to have a 100% flat, uniform namespace for
>> nice clean auto-building, rather than 95%.
> 
> I am unsure about this one. A normalized view is nice, but not
> with >700 entries. Subdirs may help here, but cpan/ alone has
>  >380 entries. Trygve, from a Hudson point-of-view, do you
> have a preference for repository layout?

No, Hudson really don't care. You give it an url, Hudson checks it out 
and build it.

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Trygve



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