On Tue, May 27, 2008 at 2:37 PM, Aaron Griffin <aaronmgriffin@gmail.com> wrote:
On Mon, May 26, 2008 at 6:00 PM, Xavier <shiningxc@gmail.com> wrote:
Hello,
stonecrest wrote a very useful script in my opinion a while ago : http://www.archlinux.org/pipermail/arch/2007-November/016238.html
However, it hasn't been updated since the svn move and the new abs. It had a feature to fetch the abs tree itself, using csup directly. But anyway it is not required, abs can be used manually instead, so I just removed that part. The second problem is the directory structure, which is now different for core/extra/etc, where the package dir are on the first level, compared to community which still has the old layout with an additional level of category. This breaks the following function : def repo_from_path(path): return path.split("/")[-4] It should be -4 for community and -3 for the rest. Instead I just used 3, but it will only work on /var/abs/ tree (or any other structure with just 2 directory levels). Anyway, this was just two quick hacks to get the script working again and see what were its results now. And it is still far from perfect :)
I think this script is something that packagers (of the official repos) should check regularly to ensure the quality of arch pkgbuilds and packages.
I think I might add this in to this set of "repo maintenance" cron jobs so that it will email the dev list once a day. It's definitely worth it.
I just checked it in in the dbscripts repo. http://projects.archlinux.org/?p=dbscripts.git;a=commit;h=1c9a21bdf378ddd357... (Thanks Scott)
Travis, would you mind taking a look at this and patching it to work over the /home/abs tree on gerolde?
Sure - I probably won't get to it tonight though. I've starred this in gmail, so hopefully I'll remember. ;) Feel free to poke me relentlessly about it if I don't produce anything before the end of the week.