[Gnu-arch-users] Re: Symbolic tags for production releases

[Matthew Palmer]

On Wed, Jan 19, 2005 at 06:58:48PM -0800, Colin Fox wrote:
> When I try to create an example symbolic tag for xs--tracker, here's
> what I get:
> 
> address@hidden xs-tracker $ tla tag xs--tracker--0.1--patch-6 \
> xs--tracker-releases--0.1
> 
> No such package (xs--tracker-releases)
> ~  name: address@hidden
> ~  location: sftp://cfconsulting.ca/usr/local/archives/2004-dev
> ~  package-version: xs--tracker-releases--0.1
> 
> It's true that there is no xs--tracker-releases package. I was assuming
> that the tag command would create one, since the tutorial doesn't
> explicitly create the "hello-world--snapshots" that it references.
> 
> Am I missing something, or is the tutorial missing a step or two?

The tutorial's probably missing a few things.  Just supply the -S argument
to tag to automatically create any missing categories, branches, or
versions, or use baz (whose branch command does this sort of thing
automatically, and is equivalent to tag).

- Matt

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