On Thu, Feb 4, 2010 at 7:23 AM, Allan McRae <allan@archlinux.org> wrote:
Hi all,
There has been talk about what is needed/wanted for the future of devtools and db-scripts but not much done lately. So I thought I would get together a list of ideas so we could perhaps do a coding sprint to implement them. Here is what I have got so far:
devtools - split-PKGBUILDs with (supported in future pacman): -> both binary and arch=any packages -> overridden pkgver -> overridden pkgrel (and only selected sub-packages) - support for xz compression (nothing needed?)
db-scripts - support for xz compression transition (e.g. in clean-up script) - support for single "package" directory with symlinks to repos - allow db-move to handle multiple packages (or add a script to help moving from community-testing)
There are already testing2community* scripts in git as well as a db-community-testing. They just need to be released on sigurd.
- delta support...
Any others?
Couple of bugs that could be fixed. FS#17058 - {dbscripts} ftpdir-cleanup marked new packages as out of date FS#17098 - sourceballs: Removal of old sourceball not efficient Probably sourceballs and sourceballs-cleanup should be merged. And the sourceball script is still lacking support for the community repos. I used to work a lot on the sourceball script but don't have much time lately. I also have no idea on how to access the svn for commynity from gerolde like the way the sourceballs-cleanup script currently do.
Allan