>From sfwnv-discuss-bounces at opensolaris.org Fri Jun 29 04:50:41 2007
>What were the reasons for checking in the exploded sources from the .tar.gz
>into the repository?
They aren't, only the tar file is checked in if there is one. Of course
it's ok if somebody just checks in the sources directly but then
there would be no tar file, and that has some risks with sccs.
>Is this purely for reading/viewing/grokking?
yes, my scripts that create what goes to opengrok expand the
tar file so you don't have to download it yourself and expand
it if you want something from inside (perhaps to see what
a patch is really fixing).
>Am I correct in assuming that no changes are *committed* to these source files
>in the opensolaris.org repository and instead .patch files are generated and
>applied?
If you check in a tar file, certainly my hope is that it is the
unmodified one from the owners, and if you do have to patch things
then you apply patches. I'm not sure that's true for everything
there now as I haven't been the gatekeeper for sfw all through it's
life, and it looks to me like the sma stuff may possibly not
do that (since it has sma1.0.tar.gz, but that actually contains
net-snmp and some sun directory).
Mike
