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Re: ecos-opt
- From: Gary Thomas <gary at mlbassoc dot com>
- To: Jonathan Larmour <jifl at eCosCentric dot com>
- Cc: eCos Maintainers <ecos-maintainers at sources dot redhat dot com>
- Date: 21 May 2003 13:34:47 -0600
- Subject: Re: ecos-opt
- Organization: MLB Associates
- References: <3ECBD40B.1080501@eCosCentric.com>
On Wed, 2003-05-21 at 13:31, Jonathan Larmour wrote:
> Now that 2.0 is out and for the moment we hope, people will be less
> reliant on CVS (or at least there won't be a much better time), I would
> like to do something a little drastic...
>
> As (ex-)Red Hat folks will remember, it was decided way way back to split
> off the network stack and SNMP directories into a separate "ecos-opt"
> hierarchy in the public CVS tree. And so it has remained to this day.
>
> However I've found I still get the odd problems because of this, in
> particular if you use "checkout" as a way to update your source tree,
> instead of "update" it barfs.
>
> So I'd like to finally bring everything back into one tree. I believe it
> can be done fairly easily, by just moving the directories into place
> within the repository and then putting in symlinks directly in the CVS
> repository in the old places to make sure existing checkouts work.... but
> new checkouts would not get those as I would update the "modules" file
> appropriately. It would only really affect things for people using
> "checkout" to update their sources, but since that's already broken there
> can't be many of those :-).
>
> Any objections or suggestions? If not, I'll choose a quiet period some
> time soon to do it.... as you can tell actually doing it is just a few
> trivial commands actually! But of course I'll need to test it.
Sounds fine to me - I was never very fond of the split anyway.\
You should be able to test this with a local copy of the CVS tree.
That way, when you make the change all the ducks will be in a row.
--
Gary Thomas <gary@mlbassoc.com>
MLB Associates