Re: CVS access to upstream

2001-02-13 Thread peter karlsson
Chad C. Walstrom: The easiest way is to maintain a vendor branch in a local repository. I would prefer not to make unnecessary copies... You can use the cvs-inject script provided by cvs-buildpackage to automate much of this. (Do an 'apt-cache show cvs-buildpackage'.) Ah.

Re: CVS access to upstream

2001-02-13 Thread Jason Henry Parker
peter karlsson [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Ah. cvs-buildpackage. Yeah, that one could need some documentation. I tried using it once, but gave up. And I do have some CVS knowledge... :-) I've been using it for years. All I have ever done is cut and paste from the documentation. jason --

Re: CVS access to upstream

2001-02-13 Thread Chad C. Walstrom
peter karlsson wrote: I would prefer not to make unnecessary copies... I think you're referring to the local repository as being unnecessary, in which case I'd agree with you. However, if you do use local repositories and do not have direct upstream CVS access, vendor branchanes are far too

Re: CVS access to upstream

2001-02-13 Thread Matt Zimmerman
On Tue, Feb 13, 2001 at 10:21:59AM +0100, peter karlsson wrote: Chad C. Walstrom: The easiest way is to maintain a vendor branch in a local repository. I would prefer not to make unnecessary copies... In that case, try creating a branch in the upstream CVS module, rather than a separate

Re: CVS access to upstream

2001-02-13 Thread peter karlsson
Chad C. Walstrom: The easiest way is to maintain a vendor branch in a local repository. I would prefer not to make unnecessary copies... You can use the cvs-inject script provided by cvs-buildpackage to automate much of this. (Do an 'apt-cache show cvs-buildpackage'.) Ah. cvs-buildpackage.

Re: CVS access to upstream

2001-02-13 Thread Jason Henry Parker
peter karlsson [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Ah. cvs-buildpackage. Yeah, that one could need some documentation. I tried using it once, but gave up. And I do have some CVS knowledge... :-) I've been using it for years. All I have ever done is cut and paste from the documentation. jason --

Re: CVS access to upstream

2001-02-13 Thread Chad C. Walstrom
peter karlsson wrote: I would prefer not to make unnecessary copies... I think you're referring to the local repository as being unnecessary, in which case I'd agree with you. However, if you do use local repositories and do not have direct upstream CVS access, vendor branchanes are far too

Re: CVS access to upstream

2001-02-13 Thread Matt Zimmerman
On Tue, Feb 13, 2001 at 10:21:59AM +0100, peter karlsson wrote: Chad C. Walstrom: The easiest way is to maintain a vendor branch in a local repository. I would prefer not to make unnecessary copies... In that case, try creating a branch in the upstream CVS module, rather than a separate

Re: CVS access to upstream

2001-02-12 Thread Chad C. Walstrom
On Mon, Feb 12, 2001 at 09:25:26PM +0100, peter karlsson wrote: I have CVS access to a upstream program I am the Debian maintainer for (jwhois), and since I have learnt the lesson of moving the debian directory in the CVS, I'm planning to add them as a separate module. My question, however

Re: CVS access to upstream

2001-02-12 Thread Chad C. Walstrom
Regarding: Debian native package v.s. Upstream *.orig.tar.gz + *.diff Joshua Haberman wrote: Really? I was told by someone else that it makes things much more complicated, since you have to release a new upstream version for any debian-specific changes to be made. I'll refrain from quoting

CVS access to upstream

2001-02-12 Thread peter karlsson
Hi! I have CVS access to a upstream program I am the Debian maintainer for (jwhois), and since I have learnt the lesson of moving the debian directory in the CVS, I'm planning to add them as a separate module. My question, however, is how to handle differences between the Debian version

Re: CVS access to upstream

2001-02-12 Thread Chad C. Walstrom
Regarding: Debian native package v.s. Upstream *.orig.tar.gz + *.diff Joshua Haberman wrote: Really? I was told by someone else that it makes things much more complicated, since you have to release a new upstream version for any debian-specific changes to be made. I'll refrain from quoting