Re: BZR and the bootstrap

[Angelo Graziosi]

Il 09/08/2010 8.57, Stephen J. Turnbull ha scritto:
> Óscar Fuentes writes:
>
>   >  >  Nothing bad should happen, because if I'm right, Emacs invokes
>   >  >  "bzr status" which is done entirely locally.
>
>   >  He says that the modem lights blink, indicating network
>   >  activity.

Right!

>   >  So it seems that the OP is using a lightweight
>   >  checkout.

Wow! Oscar, you have a crystal ball!! Really I did

$ bzr checkout --lightweight http://bzr.savannah.gnu.org/r/emacs/trunk 
emacs-trunk

the first time I used BZR!

>   >  If that is true, I wonder what info bzr needs from
>   >  upstream.

Indeed...

> Everything.  From the help message:
>
> Usage:   bzr checkout [BRANCH_LOCATION] [TO_LOCATION]
>
> Options:
>    --lightweight         Perform a lightweight checkout.  Lightweight checkouts
>                          depend on access to the branch for every operation.
>
> It's penny-wise and pound-foolish for anybody who is unfamiliar with
> Bazaar to use lightweight checkouts.  Occasional contributors and beta
> testers should invest in a full branch, bound or not depending on
> their use cases.

So, what is it the best way to create the development source tree of Emacs?

Is, perhaps, the following?

$ bzr checkout http://bzr.savannah.gnu.org/r/emacs/trunk emacs-trunk

I wonder if there is a way that uses 'rsync', instead, like TeXLive[*]...

Ciao,
Angelo.

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[*] http://www.tug.org/texlive/svn :

"You can retrieve the entire development source tree via rsync:
rsync -a --delete --exclude=.svn tug.org::tldevsrc ."