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GLEP: 36 |
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Title: Subversion/CVS for Gentoo Hosted Projects |
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Version: $Revision: 1.2 $ |
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Author: Aaron Walker <ka0ttic@gentoo.org> |
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Last-Modified: $Date: 2005/03/23 15:27:24 $ |
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Status: Draft |
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Type: Standards Track |
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Content-Type: text/x-rst |
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Created: 11-Nov-2004 |
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Post-Date: 13-Mar-2005, 21-Mar-2005, 14-Apr-2005 |
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Abstract |
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Allow maintainers of Gentoo hosted projects to choose between Subversion/CVS. |
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Motivation |
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By offering a choice of version control systems, developers who want or need |
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certain features, can choose which one suits them or their project the best. |
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In addition, there are quite a few projects that should be Gentoo hosted, but |
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are hosted elsewhere due to the fact that Subversion is not currently offered. |
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Examples include the app-vim/gentoo-syntax package ([1]_), and |
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app-shells/gentoo-bashcomp ([2]_). |
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Subversion has many advantages over CVS, including changesets, directory |
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versioning, atomic commits, versioned metadata, and more efficient branching |
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and tagging ([3]_). Despite these advantages, many developers feel that |
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Subversion is not yet ready for the main tree due to scaling issues. |
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Specification |
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The following steps describe, in detail, the process of setting up the |
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Subversion svnserve daemon (over SSH) and creating new repositories. |
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One repository should be created per project. Reasons for this include easier |
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control over who has access, performance (checking out one big repository |
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takes many times longer), ease-of-use (branching and merging are more difficult |
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with one big repository), and meaningful revision numbers (since Subversion |
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uses repository-global revision numbers, revision numbers for project A will |
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increase on every commit even if no changes are made to project A). |
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For preexisting CVS repositories, instructions on converting ([4]_) are |
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already available in addition to the cvs2svn documentation itself ([5]_). |
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1. Install dev-util/subversion:: |
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$ emerge subversion |
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2. Write wrapper script for svnserve:: |
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$ $EDITOR /usr/local/bin/svnserve-ssh && chmod +x \ |
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> /usr/local/bin/svnserve-ssh |
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#!/bin/sh |
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umask 002 |
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exec /usr/bin/svnserve "$@" |
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3. Modify the svnserve rc script:: |
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$ cp /etc/init.d/svnserve /etc/init.d/svnserve-ssh |
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$ sed -i 's:/usr/bin/svnserve:/usr/local/bin/svnserve-ssh:' \ |
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> /etc/init.d/svnserve-ssh |
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4. Edit svnserve rc config:: |
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$ ln -s /etc/init.d/svnserve /etc/init.d/svnserve-ssh |
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$ $EDITOR /etc/init.d/svnserve |
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SVNSERVE_OPTS="--root=/var/svnroot" |
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SVNSERVE_USER="svn" |
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SVNSERVE_GROUP="svn" |
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5. Add svn group and user:: |
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$ groupadd svn |
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$ useradd svn -d /var/svnroot -s /bin/false -g svn |
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6. Create the directory that will hold the repositories:: |
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$ mkdir -p /var/svnroot/conf |
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7. To create new repositories, simply run:: |
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$ svnadmin create --fs-type fsfs /var/svnroot/<repos> |
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8. Make sure newly created/converted repositories have correct permissions. Of course, Infra might want to do this differently:: |
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$ chown -Rf svn:users /var/svnroot/<repos> |
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$ chmod -Rf 775 /var/svnroot/<repos> |
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9. Start it up:: |
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$ /etc/init.d/svnserve-ssh start |
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$ rc-update add svnserve-ssh default |
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Backwards Compatibility |
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Offering a choice between Subversion and CVS should in no way cause any |
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backwards compatibility issues. Those developers who prefer to use CVS can |
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continue to do so without any ill effects. |
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References |
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.. [1] app-vim/gentoo-syntax |
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http://developer.berlios.de/projects/gentoo-syntax/ |
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.. [2] app-shells/gentoo-bashcomp |
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http://developer.berlios.de/projects/gentoo-bashcomp/ |
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.. [3] Version Control with Subversion |
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http://svnbook.red-bean.com/en/1.0/ch01s03.html |
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.. [4] Migration of Gentoo Repositories from CVS to Subversion |
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http://dev.gentoo.org/~trapni/CVS2SVN.MIGRATION |
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.. [5] cvs2svn Documentation |
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http://cvs2svn.tigris.org/cvs2svn.html |
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Copyright |
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========= |
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This document has been placed in the public domain. |
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