request cvs renaming (was: Re: cvs repository symlink)

[Leo Simons]

Hi Brian,

I guess this slipped through your busy schedule. Could you find some time or someone to do this:

a) renaming /home/cvs/jakarta-avalon[-$foo] to /home/cvs/avalon[-$foo]
b) putting something temporary in the cvs/modules file that when someone
goes to update or commit under the old name, tells them to go to the
new one.
c) chgrp'ing /home/cvs/avalon-* to group "avalon", which all of you are
in.
d) for now, making sure that commits to the avalon modules goes to the
"right place" at the avalon-*-cvs@jakarta lists, but eventually moving
that to *[EMAIL PROTECTED]

thanks!

- Leo

Brian Behlendorf wrote:

On Wed, 22 Jan 2003, Leo Simons wrote:

Brian Behlendorf wrote:

Symlinks are always dangerous, and I especially worry about them in a CVS
repository.

didn't know that...hmm. We do have a few, don't we?

Um, yeah, too many. Let's not create more. I'll address removing the
remaining ones in a separate email to infrastructure@.

I mainly worry about whether an action like that corrupts the repository
in some subtle way. Imagine if someone checks out both the part of
the repos that appears under the symlink, and the original name for that
link itself, changes each copy separately, then (without thinking) checks
both in at the same time. I don't know what'll happen, so I'm not trying
to spread FUD, I'm just trying to completely eliminate the possibility of
something going wrong.

Can we just rename them, and then modify the modules file to
tell people who try and check out or update jakarta-avalon[-site] about
the new module name?

sounds good to me, but maybe I'm missing something....avalon
people...objections anyone?

So, to be clear: what we're doing is

a) renaming /home/cvs/jakarta-avalon[-$foo] to /home/cvs/avalon[-$foo]
b) putting something temporary in the cvs/modules file that when someone
goes to update or commit under the old name, tells them to go to the
new one.
c) chgrp'ing /home/cvs/avalon-* to group "avalon", which all of you are
in.
d) for now, making sure that commits to the avalon modules goes to the
"right place" at the avalon-*-cvs@jakarta lists, but eventually moving
that to *[EMAIL PROTECTED]

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