From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 20252 invoked by alias); 21 May 2003 19:34:49 -0000 Mailing-List: contact ecos-maintainers-help@sources.redhat.com; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Subscribe: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: ecos-maintainers-owner@sources.redhat.com Received: (qmail 20210 invoked from network); 21 May 2003 19:34:48 -0000 Subject: Re: ecos-opt From: Gary Thomas To: Jonathan Larmour Cc: eCos Maintainers In-Reply-To: <3ECBD40B.1080501@eCosCentric.com> References: <3ECBD40B.1080501@eCosCentric.com> Content-Type: text/plain Organization: MLB Associates Message-Id: <1053545687.1558.1070.camel@hermes> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Ximian Evolution 1.2.2 (1.2.2-4) Date: Wed, 21 May 2003 19:34:00 -0000 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-SW-Source: 2003-05/txt/msg00041.txt.bz2 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 MLB Associates