[Koha-devel] Moving to Arch?

[MJ Ray]

On 2004-09-23 13:03:41 +0100 Joshua Ferraro <jmf at kados.org> wrote:

> However, I'm still not clear on how the mirror is supposed to work
> (at least it seems not to be working right for me).  When I browse
> the archive in Mozilla (http://kados.org/arches) I don't see the 
> actual
> Koha files anywhere (but they are in my working copy) ... just the 
> tar.gz
> files (or does arch natively store the repo as a tar.gz file?)

Yes, arch basically stores the repo as a tar.gz of sources and a 
tar.gz of patchfiles and some instructions; along with that goes some 
metadata like the email-style log file. This is engine mechanics, 
though.

To me, it has the benefit of being neatly compressed (quick to mirror) 
and allows a beta/pre tarball to be created with one simple command. 
The drawback is that you do have to download or checkout a working 
copy to look at the files. That's the same for CVS and most people 
using web access to cvs use viewcvs or similar. Some Arch frontends 
are on http://wiki.gnuarch.org/moin.cgi/Arch_20Revision_20Browsers

> The commands I used to build the mirror are listed in the above blog 
> entry.

That's not a mirror. That's your own local branch. You can do some 
work, commit it and tell me to merge it. You can branch it and 
generally moosh it about how you want. (One request: don't make more 
than one archive with the same name, else I may go nuts later.) 
Imagine having your own local CVS copy of koha that you have total 
admin control over. You can put more than one branch in each archive, 
too, which is what koha2--release2-0.2 will be.

Mirrors are created by the archive-mirror command, but I think they're 
not very interesting other than for distributing files around the 
world, or publishing a local archive to a public site.

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