[arch-dev-public] SR 2007-09-24 * Orphan Packages / Cleanup

[Damir Perisa]

Tuesday 25 September 2007, Aaron Griffin wrote:
 | > is there an easy way to move a pkg to community? ideally to keep
 | > the history ...
 |
 | I wouldn't say it's _easy_, but you can move the RCS file
 | directly. CVS is weird like that.
 |
 | Try it somewhere else first just so we don't break extra or
 | whatever, but, if you move, say:
 |    cvs-arch/arch/foo/PKGBUILD,v
 | to
 |    cvs-community/community/foo/PKGBUILD,v
 |
 | That should keep the history and everything - just be careful. 8)

i was more of thinking about a script to do it in the back.... 
automatically. ;)  ... especially when we want to manage the 
community->extra extra->community transitions while keeping history, 
it may be helpful that a unified process is established and done. 

CVS magic :)

- D

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