On Mon, Oct 26, 2009 at 10:39 PM, Evangelos Foutras <foutrelis@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Hello, > > The $Id$ keyword came up while talking with Angel and I realized that the > svn:keywords property doesn't get set on PKGBUILD for new packages, and thus > $Id$ doesn't get updated on commit. I believe we should fix this, as this > information is useful when determining when a PKGBUILD was last modified and > by whom. > > May I suggest we do the following: > > 1) Edit the "Adding a package" section [1] of the packaging instructions in > the DeveloperWiki to include this step. (Adding `svn propset svn:keywords > "Id" new-package/trunk/PKGBUILD' below the $EDITOR line perhaps?) > 2) Add this property to all packages (this has been done once before by > Aaron, if I remember correctly). > > What's your view on this? > > ---- > [1] > http://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/DeveloperWiki:HOWTO_Be_A_Packager#Adding_a_package > We should do #1. The Id tag should be set when a package is added to the repo. As for option #2, it has already been done.
