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Date:      Wed, 01 Aug 2001 16:55:11 +0300
From:      Maxim Sobolev <sobomax@FreeBSD.org>
To:        Akinori MUSHA <knu@iDaemons.org>
Cc:        Akinori MUSHA <knu@FreeBSD.ORG>, cvs-committers@FreeBSD.ORG, cvs-all@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: cvs commit: ports/databases Makefile    ports/databases/db3-latestMakefile distinfo pkg-comment pkg-descr    pkg-plistports/databases/db3-latest/files patch-aa patch-ab
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Akinori MUSHA wrote:

> At Wed, 01 Aug 2001 15:49:51 +0300,
> sobomax wrote:
> > 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
>
> The 3.3.11 -> 3.3.12 upgrade history would not be important because
> 3.3.x will never become our recommended version until it's pulled down
> to databases/db3.

Who might know for sure what is important and what isn't? AFAIK we have cvs to
keep all history, because it is impossible to tell in advance.

> I had a good mind to name it databases/db3-devel, but I decided not
> since db 3.3.11 was actually a release from Sleepycat.  However, from
> the ports point of view it's still a development version and
> databases/db3-latest will preverse the history of the maturing
> periods.

See above.

> (I wouldn't insist on it, though)
>
> > 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.
>
> I've never heard we ever did something like that...

This doesn't mean that we can't do it. Currently db3-latest has no cvs history,
which doesn't look like a correct thing to me.

-Maxim



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