[Box Backup] Compiling boxbackup

[Kenny Millington]

Hi,

> This line of makeparcels.pl.in looks pretty dodgy to me:
> 
>  	print MAKE <<EOF if $product_version =~ /trunk_[0-9]+/;
> 
> Your copy of the trunk has no version because it's exported, not checked 
> out. I'll see if I can find a better way to code this.

Damn you beat me to it, I'd just dug around and discovered that! I was
just about to reply saying setting the version to trunk_2467 in
VERSION.txt makes it work. ;-)

> Out of curiosity, why do you export rather than checkout? Is it necessary?

I'm actually building myself a Debian(/Ubuntu) package of latest trunk
(for my own use) and so I naturally cleaned up (removed) the .svn/
directory without giving it a second thought.

I guess in the normal order of things the packager would be downloading
a proper release with the docs already built. This is definitely worth
knowing about but IMO I don't think it's a major issue. :-)

Thanks for your prompt replies,
-- 
Kenny Millington
Systems Developer
kenny.millington@3ait.co.uk

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