tech-pkg: Re: difficulty from renaming packages, and how to deal

Subject: Re: difficulty from renaming packages, and how to deal
To: None <tech-pkg@NetBSD.org>
From: Jeremy C. Reed <reed@reedmedia.net>
List: tech-pkg
Date: 09/24/2007 07:48:52

On 2007年9月23日, Greg Troxel wrote:
> We don't rename on branches, do we? :-)
> 
> That should be indeed be prohibited, and I think it already is.
> 
> But someone needs to be able to update from one branch to the next, and
> having CHANGES from head should work fine for that.
I don't think having the recent CHANGES file downloaded in addition to 
pkg_summary files for binary-only users is good enough -- since the 
CHANGES files is only for the one year. Unless we plan to make it so all 
CHANGES-* files are available.
 Jeremy C. Reed