Updating Packages - Package Maintainers

Brucehankins

So I have a question for the package maintainers, how do you update the software you maintain? My process is when an update is released, I clone from dev.getsol.us every time and then perform the update, test, and push as normal.
I'm sure there's an easier way to do this than delete the directory from my machine, git clone then do the normal stuff, but how do I do that? Is it as simple as git pull? I want to make sure I'm doing it properly so when I run arc diff everything goes through properly.

EbonJaeger

Brucehankins I just keep the repo directory on my machine, and run make pull both right after my patch has been accepted, and before starting the process to do another update to the package, just to be extra sure that my local copy matches what's on the server.

make pull in the package directory will pull the latest stuff from dev.getsol.us, and automatically git rebase for you to make sure that you're at the HEAD, or latest commit.

kyrios

I also keep the repo directory on my machine and run some scripts/aliases that perform a make pull and some other stuffs like showing the name(s) of the maintainers if there is a MAINTAINERS.md file, display the latest tags if the source url is a github repository and such things.

I rarely delete the repo, I just do a make clean once I am done to remove the .eopkg files.