2008/4/12, Travis Willard <travis@archlinux.org>:
May as well tell the people what's happening with ABS. Here's an announcement draft:
-----------8<-----------------8<-------- ABS 2.0 In Testing
With version 2, ABS has moved to an rsync method for pulling the ABS tree, as part of the changes that needed to be made for our internal move from CVS to SVN as our source control mechanism. This means a few things:
1) cvsup/csup are no longer required 2) /etc/abs/supfile.* are no longer required 3) Anyone opening ports for use with ABS will now need to open port 837, the rsync port
Also, since category information (ie. base, devel, editors) is no longer stored in the repo, makeworld has been updated - check makeworld -h for more info. -----------8<-----------------8<--------
Thoughts?
Sounds fine to me except #3 - I don't understand it (and I probably some users will too). Can you explain it please? Also, since you mentioned SVN move - should we make an announcement about SVN move first (or combine it with ABS newsitem)? *shrugs* (probably this had to be done (as Andy mentioned) as soon as we've made CVS read-only, but oh well). P.S.: now (after abs signoff) csup can be removed from Core, I think. -- Roman Kyrylych (Роман Кирилич)