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Date: Wed, 01 Aug 2001 15:49:51 +0300
From: Maxim Sobolev <sobomax@FreeBSD.org>
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To: Akinori MUSHA <knu@iDaemons.org>
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Subject: Re: cvs commit: ports/databases Makefile  
 ports/databases/db3-latestMakefile distinfo pkg-comment pkg-descr  
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Akinori MUSHA wrote:

> At Wed, 01 Aug 2001 15:12:40 +0300,
> sobomax wrote:
> > Akinori MUSHA wrote:
> >
> > > knu         2001/08/01 05:02:51 PDT
> > >
> > >   Modified files:
> > >     databases            Makefile
> > >   Added files:
> > >     databases/db3-latest Makefile distinfo pkg-comment pkg-descr
> > >                          pkg-plist
> > >     databases/db3-latest/files patch-aa patch-ab
> > >   Log:
> > >   Add db3-latest, the latest version of databases/db3, 3.3.11.
> >
> > What about repo-copy?
>
> I don't think we need one.  It will never replace databases/db3 and
> any the essential update will gradually be merged into db3, so the
> history will not be lost.
>
> Am I missing something?

Yes, you do (IMO). Imagine that tomorrow new version is released (say
3.3.12), while compatibility problem is still here, so you are updating
db3-latest and leaving db3 as is. Eventually, after some time, the
problem that lead to db3/db3-latest fork disappears, so you have to merge
db3-latest back into db3 and delete the former, but at this point
db3-latest already accumulated some history (our imaginary 3.3.11 -->
3.3.12 upgrade and possibly others deltas), so you have to select
whicheve history to dump - db3 or db3-latest. This problem will not exist
if you did a repo-copy from db3 to db3-latest at the beginning - in this
case you are simply doing a repo-delete of db3 and repo-copy from
db3-latest back to db3.

-Maxim


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