[Fedora-infrastructure-list] Re: CVS admin request

[Warren Togami]

Hans de Goede wrote:
> Hi Warren,
> 
> Could you please create an empty devel branch for gkrellm. gkrellm is
> already in CVs, but only RHL-8 and RHL-9 branches as after that it moved
> to core, now its moving back and because of the exisiting branches
> cvs-import.sh won't work.
> 
> I already put this on the CVSSyncNeeded wiki-page, in the special
> requests section, but special requests usually take ages to get handled.
> And this is currently blocking import of 2 new packages into FE (gkrellm
> and gkrellm-wifi).
> 
> This is also discussed here:
> http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Extras/CVSSyncNeeded
> https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=197967
> 
> Thanks & Regards,
> 
> Hans

The way the CVS system was designed, it is a huge mess to re-add a devel 
branch after it has been deleted.  It might be easier to just blow away 
the entire directory and import it from scratch.  I'll go ahead and do 
this after talking to infrastructure people.

Warren Togami
wtogami at redhat.com