Re: ecos-opt

[Gary Thomas <gary@mlbassoc.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