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NOTES ON THE EMACS PACKAGE ARCHIVE
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The GNU Emacs package archive, at elpa.gnu.org, is managed using Bzr.
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The Bzr branch is hosted on Savannah, and you can check it out with
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bzr branch bzr+ssh://USER@bzr.savannah.gnu.org/emacs/elpa elpa
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Changes made to this branch propagate to elpa.gnu.org as follows.
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There exists a copy of the elpa branch on that machine. Someone with
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access must log in, pull the latest changes from Savannah, and run a
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"deployment" script that generates the content at the web-visible
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location http://elpa.gnu.org/packages.
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The reason things are set up this way, instead of using the package
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upload utilities in package-x.el, is so that Emacs hackers can easily
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edit the contents of the Savannah "elpa" branch, with the aid of
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version control. (For instance, multi-file packages are stored on the
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Bzr branch in source form, not as tarfiles.) Because deployment is a
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semi-manual process, this allows us some flexibility in making changes
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to the branch on Savannah. Furthermore, one can use the elpa branch
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to deploy a "local" copy of the package archive, for testing.
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For details on how to use the elpa branch, see that README file in
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that branch.
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