Does this make sense?

kleptophobiac · 2005-12-18 13:51:24

Perhaps it would be nice to have the CVS server hold on to tarballs of each release of a package (not the binaries, just the PKGBUILD and related files) and make it easy to download previous version of complete packages. Right now I have to undiff the current files, which seriously blows.

Thoughts on this?

Cam · 2005-12-18 14:16:33

You could write a bash script to do it for you. Last I heard hosting was getting kinda tight around here but that info could be out of date, I don't real the mailing lists.

arooaroo · 2005-12-18 16:37:54

kleptophobiac wrote:

Perhaps it would be nice to have the CVS server hold on to tarballs of each release of a package (not the binaries, just the PKGBUILD and related files) and make it easy to download previous version of complete packages. Right now I have to undiff the current files, which seriously blows.
Thoughts on this?

What, like this: http://www.archlinux.org/cvs.php?

kleptophobiac · 2005-12-18 20:28:04

No, not quite. That only checks out the current version, and doesn't get old revisions of things together. For example, you don't get the previous version of both an install file and the pkgbuild that went together. Does that compute?

arooaroo · 2005-12-18 21:25:58

Ah, get you now. Yeah, that idea is a good one. If I understand correctly, there's no way of knowing for sure which version of the install file goes with a given PKGBUILD, even after you've gone through the process of undiffing.

Presumably this will require devs to add some tags to aid the user to get to a given version of a PKGBUILD+files.

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