[Gnu-arch-users] Symbolic tags for production releases

[Colin Fox]

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As part of my ongoing changeover to Arch, one of the things I want to
implement is an improved production-server flow.

We're developing a website for a big client, and it's important to make
sure that when we roll out a new update to the site, it's done in an
orderly manner and is also roll-backable. Symbolic tags sound like just
the thing.

In the tutorial, it mentions using symbolic tags like this:

"To create the snapshot  tag for patch-23 :

~        % tla tag hello-world--mainline--0.1--patch-23 \
~                    hello-world--snapshots--0.1
"

In my case, I have a category called "xs", with two branches -
"xs--server" and "xs--tracker", both with 0.1 revisions.

When I try to create an example symbolic tag for xs--tracker, here's
what I get:

address@hidden xs-tracker $ tla tag xs--tracker--0.1--patch-6 \
xs--tracker-releases--0.1

No such package (xs--tracker-releases)
~  name: address@hidden
~  location: sftp://cfconsulting.ca/usr/local/archives/2004-dev
~  package-version: xs--tracker-releases--0.1

It's true that there is no xs--tracker-releases package. I was assuming
that the tag command would create one, since the tutorial doesn't
explicitly create the "hello-world--snapshots" that it references.

Am I missing something, or is the tutorial missing a step or two?

Regards,
~  cf
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