[Fedora-infrastructure-list] Re: CVS admin request

Mike McGrath mmcgrath at fedoraproject.org
Wed Jul 19 18:09:42 UTC 2006


On 7/19/06, Warren Togami <wtogami at redhat.com> wrote:
> Hans de Goede wrote:
> > Hi Warren,
> >
> > Could you please create an empty devel branch for gkrellm. gkrellm is
> > already in CVs, but only RHL-8 and RHL-9 branches as after that it moved
> > to core, now its moving back and because of the exisiting branches
> > cvs-import.sh won't work.
> >
> > I already put this on the CVSSyncNeeded wiki-page, in the special
> > requests section, but special requests usually take ages to get handled.
> > And this is currently blocking import of 2 new packages into FE (gkrellm
> > and gkrellm-wifi).
> >
> > This is also discussed here:
> > http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Extras/CVSSyncNeeded
> > https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=197967
> >
> > Thanks & Regards,
> >
> > Hans
>
> The way the CVS system was designed, it is a huge mess to re-add a devel
> branch after it has been deleted.  It might be easier to just blow away
> the entire directory and import it from scratch.  I'll go ahead and do
> this after talking to infrastructure people.
>
> Warren Togami
> wtogami at redhat.com
>

I'd say thats fine.  I can't imagine it breaking anything.

        -Mike




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