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Re: gnulib now a subrepo
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Jordi Gutiérrez Hermoso |
Subject: |
Re: gnulib now a subrepo |
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Fri, 18 Nov 2011 01:14:11 -0500 |
2011/11/18 Rik <address@hidden>:
> From: Jordi Guti?rrez Hermoso <address@hidden>
>> I don't see any reason for anyone to be using an older hg.
>
> One reason is a dislike of sysadmin activities. I run the Long Term
> Release version of Kubuntu (from 4/2010) so that things stay more or
> less stable for a few years. Currently, I'm only on version 1.4 of
> Mercurial. I guess I'll try and find a PPA for it.
Sorry. I was hoping it wouldn't be too much of a hassle. Does this
help?
https://launchpad.net/~mercurial-ppa/+archive/releases
>> There is now an .hgsub file at the top-level directory that should
>> map the gnulib/ directory to its Savannah URL.
> Does this invalidate the --gnulib-srcdir option to configure?
It shouldn't. All I changed to the configure script is that by default
it now doesn't attempt a git checkout. You can still pass the git
checkout options if you wnat.
HTH,
- Jordi G. H.