[csw-maintainers] Fwd: help needed for subversion ...

[Sebastian Kayser]

* Dagobert Michelsen <dam at opencsw.org> wrote:
> As there is only one revision for the whole svn tree including GAR and
> the packages the tree and number is sufficient. The URL and revision is
> in the packages for a long time now:
> 
>   web at web [web]:/home/web/bin > pkgparam CSWiconv OPENCSW_REPOSITORY         
>   https://gar.svn.sourceforge.net/svnroot/gar/csw/mgar/pkg/libiconv/trunk@5766
> 
> You can use the revision to fixate the external link on checking out GAR.

Understood, but I fear there's a very common scenario where this doesn't
yield the proper result. Person A and B do the following:

* A checks out the whole tree
* B commits several changes to GAR
* A doesn't update GAR, commits changes to a package recipe
* A builds this package

Doesn't the repo revision from OPENCSW_REPOSITORY then refer to a GAR
revision which is newer than the one that was actually used to build the
package?

Also, from looking at the _REVISION code for OPENCSW_REPOSITORY it seems
to rely on the (to be obsoleted) gar/ symlink, right?

http://sourceforge.net/apps/trac/gar/browser/csw/mgar/gar/v2/gar.pkg.mk#L597

> This should best be done using by using mgar and with some build option
> to it, like "mgar --legacy-rebuild" or something.

Definitly. As soon as the general concept is sorted, I'll start
integrating an appropriate mechanism.

Sebastian