[csw-devel] graphviz: what does "pkginfo-opencsw-repository-uncommitted" mean?

Peter Bonivart bonivart at opencsw.org
Tue May 31 10:23:54 CEST 2011


2011/5/31 John Ellson <ellson at opencsw.org>:
> Good morning, Maciej.
>
> Couldn't a check for uncommitted files be done at the beginning of the
> build process?

Checkpkg is only run at the end.

> Its and awful waste of a developer's time, and machine cycles, to go
> through an entire build only to discover that you'd left a stderr log or
> somesuch in the subversion checkout tree.

There's no need to redo the whole build, you only have to do "remerge
repackage", even for a large package that shouldn't take more than a
few minutes at the most.

/peter


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