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Re: git 0.99.9: Subversion importer breaks RPM generation (rpmbuild bug)

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DLDavid Lang <dlang@digitalinsight.com>
Date
Oct 31, 2005, 21:31 UTC
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On Tue, 1 Nov 2005, Martin Langhoff wrote:
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> On 11/1/05, Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org> wrote:
>> I really really prefer gitk in the core, even if it means that there's
>> that strange tcl/tk dependency.
>
> I agree, but that's kind of a bummer for servers where someone just
> wants to publish a couple of repos. tk depends on xlibs/libx11 and
> that's just _nasty_.
>
> git-core should be good for deployment on a server. Perhaps we want to
> provide a git-scm package that brings in all the goodies you're likely
> to want, including gitk?

for debian make it a reccomendation not a requirement, for RPM the admins will just have to override the dependancy (it's not like they don't have to do this for a bunch of other packages that have an optional GUI piece, RPM just doesn't have the option to list a reccomendation)

David Lang
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Message 20 of 24 in “git 0.99.9: Subversion importer breaks RPM generation (rpmbuild bug)”
  1. H. Peter AnvinOct 30, 2005
  2. Wolfgang DenkOct 30, 2005
  3. H. Peter AnvinOct 30, 2005
  4. Junio C HamanoOct 30, 2005
  5. Do not try installing SVNimport on RPMJunio C Hamano, Oct 30, 2005
  6. Ryan AndersonOct 30, 2005
  7. Junio C HamanoOct 30, 2005
  8. Junio C HamanoOct 31, 2005
  9. Chris WrightOct 31, 2005
  10. Junio C HamanoOct 31, 2005
  11. H. Peter AnvinOct 31, 2005
  12. Linus TorvaldsOct 31, 2005
  13. H. Peter AnvinOct 31, 2005
  14. Junio C HamanoOct 31, 2005
  15. H. Peter AnvinOct 31, 2005
  16. Martin LanghoffOct 31, 2005
  17. Linus TorvaldsOct 31, 2005
  18. Martin LanghoffOct 31, 2005
  19. H. Peter AnvinOct 31, 2005
  20. David LangOct 31, 2005
  21. Sebastian KuzminskyOct 31, 2005
  22. Junio C HamanoOct 31, 2005
  23. Package split: Debian.Junio C Hamano, Nov 5, 2005
  24. Junio C HamanoOct 30, 2005

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