cvs directory renaming - *action required*

In order to reduce some of the confusion about which directory was active in the repository (did I want "binutils", "binutils-old", or "binutils-2.10"?) some of the directories in the repository will be renamed. This will be moderately painful, but it's better to do the painful thing now while we can still stamp out the old cruft.

"linux-2.3" will be renamed to "linux"
"binutils-2.10" will be renamed to "binutils"

If you currently have a tree checked out, you will need to change all of your CVS/Repository files to point to the new directory names. With bash you can do it like this:

$ cd linux-2.3
$ for i in `find . -name Repository`; do echo "linux" > $i; done
$ cd binutils-2.10
$ for i in `find . -name Repository`; do echo "binutils" > $i; done

You can do this now, since there is a symlink set up to support both names. The alias for the old name will be removed Wednesday. If you do not hack your tree by then you won't be able to play (update, checkout, etc) until you have the right repository entries.

Can someone please update the recipe and cvs info on www.thepuffingroup.com/parisc? Until the docs are updated, you can mentally substitute "linux" for "linux-2.3" and "binutils" for "binutils-2.10".

These should be the last directory games we play in the repository. After this, new vendor versions should be checked into the existing directories (on a branch). This will reduce the confusion from using directory names for version control.

- Mike.

P.S. If out of archeological interest you're looking for the old {linux, binutils, binutils-old, egcs-old} directory, it's been moved under directory "obsolete". e.g. "cvs co obsolete/binutils-old".

Errm, will this work? My linux-2.3/CVS/Repository file looks like this:
/home/cvs/parisc/linux-2.3
and linux-2.3/CVS/arch/Repository has /home/cvs/parisc/linux-2.3/arch

I wasn't game to try the above, and instead used

cd linux-2.3
for z in find . -name Repository
do
sed -e 's/-2.3//' $z > zzz && mv zzz $z
done

with a simliar trick for binutils.

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No, what I gave will not work and is in fact *horribly wrong*. I would recommend that people use Alan's script fragment instead ;)

- Mike.

This file "binutils-2.10/gas/testsuite/gas/cris/CVS/Repository" doesn't contain a full repository path - all the others are /home/cvs/... but this one contains just the relative path. Not sure what this means, if anything... Some of the Repository files in the linux-2.3 module have the same sort of thing. *shrug* Anyone know? =)

$ for i in $(find linux-2.3 binutils-2.10 -name Repository); do echo $(cat $i|sed 's/-[0-9.]*//') > $i; done

Why do this? Why not just tag those two modules on Wednesday when you make the change to the repository structure?

Andrew.

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"Just remember Basil, there's always someone worse off than yourself." "Oh, really? I'd like to meet him ... I could do with a good laugh."
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This is also incorrect since you'll replace any dashes that appear. You want this:
cd binutils-2.10
for z in find . -name Repository
do
sed -e 's/-2.10//' $z > zzz && mv zzz $z
done

Because "linux-2.3" is being renamed to "linux", so the old "linux" had to go. The stuff being moved is very old, and is being moved out of the way to reduce the amount of cruft in the top level of the repository. This should be the last time we have to do this. After the rename, no new directories should be created unless absolutely necessary: branches should be used instead.

- Mike.

Is anyone having trouble doing updates after the rename?

Not having any troubles with the binutils module but bombing out on linux ...

cvs server: Updating linux/arch/alpha/math-emu
cvs [server aborted]: cannot open directory /home/cvs/parisc/linux/arch/alpha/mathemu: No such file or directory

Andrew.

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"Just remember Basil, there's always someone worse off than yourself." "Oh, really? I'd like to meet him ... I could do with a good laugh."
[ Sybil and Basil Fawlty, "Fawlty Towers" ]

This is because of a problem in your sed pattern. Notice the mismatch between "math-emu" and "mathemu". You can hand edit your CVS/Repository to be correct (add the dash back).

Playing directory games in the repository is always a bad scene. But there was a desire to get rid of the junk in the repository, and better to pay the price now than have the old directories become entrenched. :/

- Mike.

Yep, my bad: thanks for sorting me out Mike. =)

Andrew.

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"Just remember Basil, there's always someone worse off than yourself." "Oh, really? I'd like to meet him ... I could do with a good laugh."
[ Sybil and Basil Fawlty, "Fawlty Towers" ]

cvs co website, then make your changes and commit them back. Next time someone with the password updates the website, your changes will appear too.

(typing make will create the .html files from the .x files so you can check your changes. Since mid-July, you haven't needed anything special installed; date, cat, echo, make, mkdir... no silly binary-only software :-)

I have some ideas for how to improve the website, but I'm going to wait and see what the Linuxcare web team come up with before I make any structural changes.

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The nightly CVS snapshots still have linux-2.3...

-Erik

The cvs tarballs on the ftp site are owned by user "adevries". From this I guess that Alex has a cron job that packages the tarballs.

Alex, can you please update your scripts?

- Mike.

Now that Matt's buildtools are in CVS, this script should probably also be in CVS, and it should be run by user `al-76'. (the significance of this name may be noted by some of you :-)

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Matthew Wilcox writes...

Good idea. I'll move it over once we're moved over to the new system.

Matt Taggart
[email protected]