Wiki-Update (Was: Re: How to update the package?)
Ankit Patel
ankit644 at yahoo.com
Thu Feb 2 10:42:51 UTC 2006
--- Thorsten Leemhuis <fedora at leemhuis.info> wrote:
> Am Mittwoch, den 01.02.2006, 22:46 -0800 schrieb
> Ankit Patel:
> > --- Nicolas Mailhot <nicolas.mailhot at laposte.net>
> > wrote:
> >
> > >
> > > Le Jeu 26 janvier 2006 13:44, Ankit Patel a
> �crit
> > :
> > >
> > > > So,
> > > >
> > > > Here are the Final steps :-
> > > > 1 ./cvs-import.sh -b <branch_name> -m "import
> > > Joe's
> > > > update" ~/bar-2.1-1.src.rpm
> > > > 2 cd ../<branch_name>
> > > > 3 make plague
> > > >
> > > > Correct me if i am wrong again !
> > >
> > > That's what works for me.
> > > You have to use dist carefully to avoid
> collisions
> > > though
> > >
> >
> > Finally, i have updated the fedoraproject wiki
> page.
> > Here is the link for that:-
> >
>
http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Extras/UsingCvsFaq#head-c4a59abbe737f54d05eecdce17583c5547fee73d
> >
> > Can somebody please look at it and modify if there
> is
> > any mistake?
>
> Ankit, I modified this part a bit, added a warning
> why I think this
> method is wrong and created a better example for the
> IMHO correct way to
> handle updates.
>
> Note: I added one thing to your example (besides
> some minor changes).
> You should make a fresh checkout with "make srpm",
> that you install,
> modify and commit.
>
> If you only update your local version and commit
> that one it might
> happen that you accidentally delete modifications or
> updates of your
> package that someone else did in cvs. That does not
> happen often, but
> happened in the past now and then.
>
> CU
> thl
> --
> Thorsten Leemhuis <fedora at leemhuis.info>
>
Thanks Thorsten !
Now, the wiki page looks better then the earlier.
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