On Tue, Oct 27, 2009 at 4:13 AM, Eric Bélanger <snowmaniscool@xxxxxxxxx>wrote: > On Tue, Oct 27, 2009 at 1:38 AM, Evangelos Foutras <foutrelis@xxxxxxxxx> > wrote: > > Eric Bélanger wrote: > >> > >> 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. > >> > > > > Unless I'm missing something, it has only been done once, on 2008-04-18. > > Packages added after that point do not have the svn:keywords property set > > (e.g.: aufs2). > > Yes, that's what I meant. It was done once on the whole repos when it > was moved to svn. Devs and TUs who adds packages need to run the svn > propset command to set the Id tag. > > > > > (Thanks for amending the developer wiki, by the way.) > > > What about SVN autoprops, can't you just attach a "pre-made" '~/.subversion/config' in the wiki and people can grab it from there. -- Flávio Coutinho da Costa
