[Gnu-arch-users] Re: Re: Future of GNU Arch, bazaar and bazaar-ng ... ?

[Anand Kumria]

On Mon, 22 Aug 2005 13:41:25 +0200, martin f krafft wrote:


> I also need flexible means to assemble multiple checkouts into
> a single hierarchy. build-configs are too cumbersome for this.
> I would like to be able to do SVN-style subcheckouts, but smarter.
> 
> E.g. if I may assume that the variables $CATEGORY/$BRANCH/$VERSION
> hold the data for the current checkout, I would like to be able to
> store in the archive the desire that ./debian should always be
> populated with debian-dir--$CATEGORY--$VERSION. Now, doing an update
> in the root should also update such child checkouts.

Perhaps config-manager (in Debian) is what you are after?  At the moment
it only uses 'tla' but when I have some more time I expect it to use 'baz'
as it's default Arch implementation.

Cheers,
Anand