[csw-maintainers] testing a release candidate from upstream

[Sebastian Kayser]

Ben Walton wrote on 06.09.2009 02:31:
> Excerpts from Gary Law's message of Sat Sep 05 20:18:58 -0400 2009:
> 
>> Is the RC available as a downloadable tar.gz? In which case GAR can be
>> kidded into building it AFAIK. If it's just an SVN checkout you'll
>> have to make a tar of your own and put it where GAR expects to find it
>> I think.
> 
> There is some support in GAR for tracking an upstream svn repo instead
> of a tarball.  I haven't used it and can't speak to how well it works,
> but it is in there.

Haven't used it either, but here are a couple of examples

 https://gar.svn.sf.net/svnroot/gar/csw/mgar/pkg/websvn/trunk/Makefile
 https://gar.svn.sf.net/svnroot/gar/csw/mgar/pkg/xmlrpc_c/trunk/Makefile

Sebastian