[Fwd: Re: [apt-rpm] 0.5.15cnc7 release candidate]

[Panu Matilainen]

On Sat, 16 Jun 2007, Panu Matilainen wrote:

> On Sat, 16 Jun 2007, Vincent Danen wrote:
>
>> * jean-seb <jsh at interlug-fr.org> [2007-06-16 14:22:03 +0400]:
>>
>>>>>>> You can look up the svn changelog from the repository now that the repo
>>>>>>> is alive again, but if you don't happen to have subversion installed
>>>>>>> here's the raw log from cnc6 until now:
>>>>>>> http://laiskiainen.org/tmp/apt-0.5.15cnc6-cnc7-changes.txt
>>>>>>>
>>>>>> Btw.. I don't know what happened to the repository. I had to dump
>>>>>> every bdb file and load again using the bdb utils. svnadmin recover,
>>>>>> db_recover -c, and other usual tricks all failed miserably.
>>>>>>
>>>>> Sorry if I'm a bit too late with the question, but anyway,
>>>>> where can I find revision history prior to 0.5.15cnc7?
>>>>>
>>>>
>>>> I'm afraid it's a bit too late as all the old infrastructure seems to have
>>>> vanished out of the existence. It was stupid of me not to import all of
>>>> the available history into my tree when it was still online :-/
>>>>
>>>> Of course Mandriva might still have the stuff on backup tapes, I'll try
>>>> pinging some folks. The revision history would certainly be nice to have
>>>> around.
>>>>
>>>>  	- Panu -
>>>>
>>>
>>> Hello,
>>>
>>> Maybe Vincent (Do you still work for Mandriva?) can do something?
>>
>> Yes, and yes.  =)
>>
>> I have the src.rpm for the 0.5.15cnc6 package here (it's also available
>> in the public official/2007.1 mirrors in media/contrib/release).
>>
>> I don't believe we have anything older than that available, although if
>> you want something older I can certainly look.
>
> Source tarballs of some can be probably found up all over the net, but
> what we'd need is the full backup of the svn repository which used to be
> available from https://oops.kerneljanitors.org/repos/apt-rpm/

FYI, I sent a query to Gustavo and Wanderlei Antonio Cavassin (from 
Mandriva) regarding the repository backup - Gustavo might have one lying 
around on his disk, and Mandriva probably has it on backup tapes at least, 
or so I'd hope...

 	- Panu -