Update on Status of Gitlab Migration

Johan Ouwerkerk jm.ouwerkerk at gmail.com
Sun Apr 12 00:03:18 BST 2020


On Sun, Apr 12, 2020 at 12:49 AM Johan Ouwerkerk <jm.ouwerkerk at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Yes the only reason why a cleanup script might be needed is if the
> logical path used to express the repo in dependency information
> changes at the same time. E.g. suppose a `frameworks/kf5foo` gets
> remapped to `frameworks/kf5/foo` or something like that. In that case
> unless you use the flat repository layout, kdesrc-build would try to
> clone a new `frameworks/kf5/foo` repo, leaving your old
> `frameworks/kf5foo` to consume some wasted disk space.
>

This is obviously a poor example, but the same problem occurs if
something moves from playground to extragear. Basically if the
`projectpath` YAML key changes.

Regards,

- Johan



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