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

[Sebastian Kayser]

* Peter Bonivart <bonivart at opencsw.org> wrote:
> On Thu, Mar 17, 2011 at 2:38 PM, 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.
> > This should best be done using by using mgar and with some build option
> > to it, like "mgar --legacy-rebuild" or something.
> 
> I use an old GAR for pkgutil since I still want to publish Solaris 8
> packages and newer GAR requires packages only available on Solaris 9.
> I have it locked on 9999 or something in that dir.

When we'll introduce GARBRANCH to the build recipes, I could easily add
support for an optional revision specifier too, e.g.

  GARBRANCH = v2 at 9999

mgar would then take care to checkout the required GAR revision to
.buildsys/v2 at 9999 and use this instead of plain v2.

Sebastian