[Fedora-infrastructure-list] Source file consolidation on CVS

[Elliot Lee]

The biggest problem will be that the 'dist' lookaside repo is  
mirrored from the internal cvs server, whereas the extras lookaside  
is the master copy...

Best,
-- Elliot

On Jul 6, 2006, at 23:22, Mike McGrath wrote:

> I'll be working to consolidate some of the source files on the CVS box
> over the next couple of days.   Pay attention and let me know
> immediately if something breaks.  I don't foresee any issues.  Right
> now legacy, cvs, and dist all have individual sources in them.  The
> sources are stored by file name and md5sum, for example:
>
> putty-0.58.tar.gz/ffb78a7db7e4802896189b2112714a9f/putty-0.58.tar.gz
>
> A collision between the different trees is unlikely.  The purpose for
> this consolidation is to ease the efforts of the legacy team and
> provide them a proper development and build environment.  In the end a
> source tarball is a source tarball, it makes sense to store them in
> one spot.  Currently the dist repo is 73G and the extras repo is 12G.
> It seems a shame to make a copy of all of that when the exact same
> files would be a directory away.
>
> Send objections, comments, suggestions and consecutive unmarked- 
> bills my way.
>
>          -Mike
>
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