On Sat, Aug 07, 1999 at 03:39:20AM -0500, Manoj Srivastava wrote: > >>"Karl" == Karl M Hegbloom <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > Karl> I've begun to do some research into package release management > Karl> using CVS vendor tracking, and am planning to write down what > Karl> I learn. The document could become part of the Debian > Karl> manuals, if it turns out to be readable and useful. > > Have you looked at cvs-buildpackage? There is a howto that > comes with that package.
Karl should also consider joining the debian-snapshots list, which is unfortunately very silent currently. (Karl, integrating the possibilities of snpashot deb packages from CVS in you rgeneric Makefiles would be a Good Thing (TM) and much appreciated by many people, like the gnome packagers). > I must confess to being confused. What exactly is unclear > about the vendor branch and tracking upstream sourece using CVS? I > must be missing something. I always had trouble with big packages under heavy development, where files and directories have been deleted and/or added. I ended up with a CVS repository that didn't match the tar file whatever I did. Unfortunately, I am not that experienced with CVS and never found the time to investigate this proper, and this may have happened only because I am confused about how thinks are supposed to work. Next time I encounter this, I will probably check into it. (From memory, I did use cvs-upgrade and the cvs update -d command as printed on the screen. I just see that there is a new cvs-co.upgrade script that may solve my problems.) Thanks, Marcus -- `Rhubarb is no Egyptian god.' Debian http://www.debian.org finger brinkmd@ Marcus Brinkmann GNU http://www.gnu.org master.debian.org [EMAIL PROTECTED] for public PGP Key http://homepage.ruhr-uni-bochum.de/Marcus.Brinkmann/ PGP Key ID 36E7CD09
