Re: Building from Subversion instead of tarball

[Jeff Johnson <n3npq jbj gmail com>]

On Aug 9, 2007, at 10:17 AM, Kenneth Porter wrote:

> All the packages I've built to date use a tarball as the base  
> source. A lot of open source projects are going to Subversion for  
> version control and I'm wondering if anyone's created a spec file  
> that can serve as an example for using a repository tag instead of  
> a tarball as a source? Would one need to do much more than replace  
> a "tar xfz" with a "svn co" in the %prep? Anything else I should  
> worry about?

Yep.

About all you have to worry about is whether you want a persistent
checkout, in which case you need to test whether check-out exists
(or not), and update instead of initial checkout.

73 de Jeff