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senjin

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[SOLVED] Problems with getting old PKGBUILD from svn

I wanted to downgrade octave to 3.0.5-4. I went to the packages page:
http://repos.archlinux.org/wsvn/package … =0&isdir=0

However, when I click at the link at the revision 43464 I get the error page:
http://repos.archlinux.org/wsvn/package … ?rev=43464

Błąd podczas wykonywania polecenia: svn --non-interactive --config-dir /tmp log --xml --quiet --limit 2 'file:///srv/svn/packages/octave/repos/testing-i686/PKGBUILD'

svn: File not found: revision 62215, path '/octave/repos/testing-i686/PKGBUILD'

The newer revisions works. Why is it like that? Are the old revisions deleted, or is it just temporary problem?

BTW Finally I managed to write the PKGBUILD myself

Last edited by senjin (2010-01-04 11:30:24)

foutrelis

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Re: [SOLVED] Problems with getting old PKGBUILD from svn

When a package is moved from [testing] to [extra] (or [core]), the repos/testing-{i686,x86_64} directories are removed. Although the testing directories should still exist in the history, WebSVN attempts to run `svn log' on a nonexistent path, not taking the revision into account.

My suggestion to overcome this issue would be to navigate back to the package's root directory (using the red links on the top left corner) and then click the "View Log" link of the "trunk/" directory. From there, find the revision you want and do:

svn co -r REV svn://svn.archlinux.org/packages/PKGNAME/trunk PKGNAME

to check out a copy of the PKGNAME package at revision REV.

senjin

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Re: [SOLVED] Problems with getting old PKGBUILD from svn

This works! Thank you for the explanation.