Arch-announce

Download

arch-announce@lists.archlinux.org

May 2017

1 participants
1 discussions

[arch-announce] Deprecation of ABS tool and rsync endpoint
by Arch Linux: Recent news updates: Florian Pritz 16 May '17

16 May '17

Due to high maintenance cost of scripts related to the Arch Build System, we have decided to deprecate the `abs` tool and thus rsync as a way of obtaining PKGBUILDs. The `asp` tool, available in [extra], provides similar functionality to `abs`. `asp export pkgname` can be used as direct alternative; more information about its usage can be found in [the documentation][asp]. Additionally Subversion sparse checkouts, as described [here][svn], can be used to achieve a similar effect. For fetching all PKGBUILDs, the best way is cloning the [svntogit][git] mirrors. While the `extra/abs` package has been already dropped, the rsync endpoint (rsync://rsync.archlinux.org/abs) will be disabled by the end of the month. [asp]: https://github.com/falconindy/asp/blob/master/man/asp.1.txt [svn]: https://www.archlinux.org/svn/ [git]: https://git.archlinux.org/svntogit/ URL: https://www.archlinux.org/news/deprecation-of-abs-tool-and-rsync-endpoint/

1 0