Index: trunk/packages/sipb-xen-dev/debian/changelog
===================================================================
--- trunk/packages/sipb-xen-dev/debian/changelog	(revision 461)
+++ trunk/packages/sipb-xen-dev/debian/changelog	(revision 464)
@@ -1,2 +1,10 @@
+sipb-xen-dev (15) unstable; urgency=low
+
+  * Stop requiring the current directory to be in the checkout.
+  * Don't do unnecessary write operations
+    (hence prompt less often for a password.)
+
+ -- Greg Price <price@mit.edu>  Sat, 26 Apr 2008 22:45:42 -0400
+
 sipb-xen-dev (14) unstable; urgency=low
 
Index: trunk/packages/sipb-xen-dev/sx-build-release
===================================================================
--- trunk/packages/sipb-xen-dev/sx-build-release	(revision 461)
+++ trunk/packages/sipb-xen-dev/sx-build-release	(revision 464)
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
 #!/bin/bash
-svnuri=`svn info | sed -n 's/^Repository Root: //p'`
+svnuri=`svn info /srv/checkout | sed -n 's/^Repository Root: //p'`
 
 set -e
@@ -17,13 +17,23 @@
 olddir=`pwd`
 cd build-release/`basename $package`
+
 eval  `perl '-F:\s+' -lane 'print  $F[0]."=".$F[1] if /^Version|^Source|^Distribution/' \
     <(dpkg-parsechangelog)`
 
+dpkg-buildpackage -us -uc -rfakeroot
 
-dpkg-buildpackage -us -uc -rfakeroot
-svn mkdir $svnuri/package_tags/$Source -m "Create package tags directory" ||true
-svn cp  $svnuri/$package $svnuri/package_tags/$Source/$Version -m "Tag $Version of $Source"
+if ! svn ls $svnuri/package_tags/$Source >/dev/null 2>&1; then
+  svn mkdir $svnuri/package_tags/$Source \
+      -m "Create package tags directory"
+fi
+if ! svn ls $svnuri/package_tags/$Source/$Version >/dev/null 2>&1; then
+  svn cp $svnuri/$package $svnuri/package_tags/$Source/$Version \
+      -m "Tag $Version of $Source"
+else
+  echo "$(basename $0): tag already exists, not making again"
+fi
+
 cd ..
- reprepro-env include $Distribution  `pwd`/${Source}_*${Version}*.changes
+reprepro-env include $Distribution  `pwd`/${Source}_*${Version}*.changes
 
 cd $olddir