From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from lists.gentoo.org ([140.105.134.102] helo=robin.gentoo.org) by nuthatch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1DonFb-0004Vb-0Q for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Sat, 02 Jul 2005 19:02:03 +0000 Received: from robin.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.4/8.13.4) with SMTP id j62J15gO009616; Sat, 2 Jul 2005 19:01:05 GMT Received: from smtp.gentoo.org (smtp.gentoo.org [134.68.220.30]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.4/8.13.4) with ESMTP id j62IxMR0014795 for ; Sat, 2 Jul 2005 18:59:22 GMT Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=home.wh0rd.org) by smtp.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1DonDB-0007Nj-55 for gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org; Sat, 02 Jul 2005 18:59:33 +0000 Received: (qmail 25329 invoked from network); 2 Jul 2005 14:57:16 -0400 Received: from unknown (HELO vapier) (192.168.0.2) by 192.168.0.1 with SMTP; 2 Jul 2005 14:57:16 -0400 From: Mike Frysinger Organization: wh0rd.org To: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Package moves as repocopies Date: Sat, 2 Jul 2005 14:59:49 -0400 User-Agent: KMail/1.8.1 References: <42C1D095.4010501@gentoo.org> <20050702184936.GC10840@curie-int.orbis-terrarum.net> In-Reply-To: <20050702184936.GC10840@curie-int.orbis-terrarum.net> Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-dev@gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-6" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200507021459.49508.vapier@gentoo.org> X-Archives-Salt: fe012517-1fa0-44e2-90f1-fdf9c08ea75b X-Archives-Hash: ad7fa1ecae70e59d43ac70548076afcd On Saturday 02 July 2005 02:49 pm, Robin H. Johnson wrote: > On Tue, Jun 28, 2005 at 03:35:01PM -0700, Donnie Berkholz wrote: > > Although this would require a request to someone with shell access to > > the CVS box, it would preserve all the history of the moved packages. > > The loss of history is (IMO) the _primary_ problem of moving packages. > > I'd like to address this item separately. > > The history is NEVER lost in a package move in the current fashion. > It's just split into multiple locations - it's a bit harder to look > back through it, but it isn't lost in any way. umm, that is until someone thinks it's a good idea to delete old stuff case in point, wtf is app-games in gentoo-x86 ? we split all the games packages into games-* categories but we lost all the history because app-games is now gone -mike -- gentoo-dev@gentoo.org mailing list