Re: [gentoo-dev] Package moves as repocopies

["Robin H. Johnson" <robbat2@gentoo.org>]

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On Tue, Jun 28, 2005 at 03:35:01PM -0700, Donnie Berkholz wrote:
> I've been wondering lately with the discussion of yet more new
> categories, why don't we do repocopies to move packages? Note that I'm
> talking about packages switching categories and explicitly _not_ about
> package name changes.
Because client-side CVS sucks at dealing with this - and from it's
point of view, there is no difference between renaming and moving
packages - they are both just directory names.

After such a move of directories, CVS clients running their next update
would find NO record of the old directory when they attempted to update
it, and the CVS client would then NOT touch the local copy at all.

Eg:
1. sys-apps/foo exists on server
2. all clients are consistent with server.
3. sys-apps/foo is moved to sys-apps/bar.
3. client A tries to update.
3.1. sys-apps/bar is downloaded as it's new to the client.
3.2. sys-apps/foo on the client side is NOT removed, as the server
doesn't know about it (it would need an explicit deletion record on the
server).
4. client has sys-apps/foo until such time as it is manually deleted.

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