Updating a package in multiple branches
Tim Jackson
lists at timj.co.uk
Sat Apr 8 07:16:37 UTC 2006
Paul Howarth wrote:
> Tim Jackson wrote:
>> I've just successfully updated altermime in the devel branch from
>> 0.3.6-0.3.7, following the instructions on
>> http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Extras/UsingCvsFaq . That's cool, but
>> now I need to update the FC-4 and FC-5 branches. Do I have to repeat
>> the whole process for each branch (including uploading the package
>> source tarball again)
> I do pretty much the same thing for each branch. The source upload takes
> no time at all though, as it's skipped if the file is already present in
> the lookaside cache, so all that step does is to update the "sources"
> and ".cvsignore" files.
OK. In that case, can't the sources file just be copied from the devel
branch?
Anyway, thanks for the advice - you confirmed what I thought. Very useful.
Tim
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