On Wed, Nov 08, 2006 at 01:06:02PM -0500, Andrew Overholt wrote: > I don't personally see the need for the distributedness when it comes to > Fedora packaging stuff. But perhaps I'm missing something. I agree, the idea of using a distributed SCM based around changeset-versioning *for /cvs/dist* seems completely nuts. Note the applicability caveat. Whether or not hg/git/... is a great SCM for your software project of choice is completely irrellevant to not its applicability to the /cvs/dist package repository. For /cvs/dist I don't care about off-line access at all, ever. CVS is off-line enough for me. You can't do anything less off-line than what we have now without having a mirror of the tarball cache, and that probably isn't going to fit on your laptop, so stop flogging that horse. I also don't care ever about making local private branches. Number of times I have wanted a private branch in 6 years of doing packaging work with CVS? Zero. So I don't want to have to be doing a two-command "commit locally, push remotely" dance. That's just a waste of time and sanity. I also never ever want to check out the whole /cvs/dist repository, nor be pulling changes for the whole repos to update the small parts I have checked out. I only care about 20-30 packages in the whole tree. But I do care about having those small parts of the tree checked out quickly and easily in multiple places. That's really useful and I depend on that regularly. joe -- Fedora-maintainers mailing list Fedora-maintainers@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-maintainers -- Fedora-maintainers-readonly mailing list Fedora-maintainers-readonly@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-maintainers-readonly
